Jeff Williams of NASA

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 47-48 crewmember Jeff Williams of NASA looks out of the crew bus to well-wishers March 3 as he and his crewmates departed for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Williams and Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos 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/Dr. Josef Schmid