Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (left) answers a reporter's question.
At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 44/45 crewmember Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (left) answers a reporter’s question July 8 during a crew news conference as backup crewmember Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency (right) looks on. Yui, Kjell Lindgren of NASA and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch on their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 23 for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Seth Marcantel