Prime and Backup Expedition 46-47 Crew Members Display Logo Flag

During a break from training, the Expedition 46-47 prime and backup crew members toured the Korolev Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Dec. 10 and displayed a flag bearing the logo for the prime crew’s Soyuz mission. From left to right are backup crew members Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, prime crewm embers Tim Kopra of NASA, Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Tim Peake of the European Space Agency who are holding the flag, and backup crew member Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos. Kopra, Peake and Malenchenko will launch Dec. 15 on the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov