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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 46-47 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures Nov. 23 at the Gagarin Museum. From left to right are backup crewmembers Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kate Rubins of NASA and Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and prime crewmembers Tim Peake of the European Space Agency, Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Tim Kopra of NASA, who will launch on Dec. 15 on the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.