Expedition 47-48 Prime Crew Members

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 47-48 crewmembers Jeff Williams of NASA (left) and Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos (center and right) answer questions from reporters in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin March 3 before departing for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch preparations. The trio 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