Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency signs in for the start of final qualification exams.
JSC2016e060854 (05/26/2016) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 48-49 prime crew member Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency signs in for the start of final qualification exams May 26 as his crewmates, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos (left) and Kate Rubins of NASA (right) look on. Rubins, Onishi and Ivanishin will launch June 24 on the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a four-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Stephanie Stoll