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At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 46-47 crew members Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (left), Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Tim Kopra of NASA (right) trained on a laptop computer to simulate docking procedures Dec. 9 as they prepare for their launch. The trio will launch Dec. 15 on their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.