Expedition 47-48 Prime Crew Members

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 47-48 prime crewmembers walked toward their bus to take them to a nearby airfield March 3 before flying to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch preparations. From left to right are Jeff Williams of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos. Williams, Ovchinin and Skripochka of will launch March 19, Kazakh time, from Baikonur on the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.

NASA/Stephanie Stoll