Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut hotel prior to departing the hotel for launch in a Soyuz rocket with fellow crew mates, Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos on March 25, 2014, in Ba
201403250004hq (25 March 2014) — Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut hotel prior to departing the hotel for launch in a Soyuz rocket with fellow crew mates, Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos on March 25, 2014, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Skvortsov, Swanson, and Artemyev are scheduled to launch March 26, Kazakhstan time, in their Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft to the International Space Station to begin a six-month mission. Photo credit NASA/Joel Kowsky