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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the prime and backup Expedition 46-47 crewmembers pose for pictures Nov. 30 in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin before departing for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From left to right are backup crewmembers, Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kate Rubins of NASA and Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and prime crewmembers Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (left), Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Tim Kopra of NASA. Malenchenko, Kopra and Tim Peake of the European Space Agency will launch Dec. 15 in their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.