NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams

Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA smiles at family and friends at a press conference on Thursday, March 17, 2016, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for March 19 and will carry Williams, Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka and Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani).