Expedition 54-55 prime crewmember Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) disconnects a cooling system hose as he boards a Soyuz spacecraft simulator.
jsc2017e135211 (Nov. 29, 2017) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 54-55 prime crewmember Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) disconnects a cooling system hose as he boards a Soyuz spacecraft simulator Nov. 29 as part of the crew’s final qualification exam activities. He will launch along with Scott Tingle of NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Dec. 17 on the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger