Legendary Russian Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, legendary Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov (center) spends a moment with NASA personnel Nov. 30 in advance of the departure of the Expedition 46-47 crew for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Tim Kopra of NASA, Tim Peake of the European Space Agency and Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch Dec. 15 in their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Seth Marcantel