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In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 46-47 crewmember Tim Peake of the European Space Agency conducts a pressure and leak check of his Sokol launch and entry suit Dec. 1 during a fit check dress rehearsal. Peake, Tim Kopra of NASA 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.