Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA (left in the crew grouping at left side of frame), Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), center, and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos are greeted by Russian space officials (right side of photo) March 13 after stepping off their plane at
JSC2014-E-025976 (13 March 2014) — Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA (left in the crew grouping at left side of frame), Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), center, and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos are greeted by Russian space officials (right side of photo) March 13 after stepping off their plane at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 13 following a flight from their training base in Star City, Russia. Swanson, Artemyev and Skvortsov are preparing for their launch to the International Space Station March 26, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft for a six-month mission. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov