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In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 46-47 crewmember Tim Kopra of NASA flashes a smile as he conducts a pressure and leak check of his Sokol launch and entry suit Dec. 1 during a fit check dress rehearsal. Kopra, Tim Peake of the European Space Agency and Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch Dec. 15 from Baikonur in the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.