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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 44/45 crewmembers Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left), Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (third from left) and NASA’s Kjell Lindgren (center) walk with their families to awaiting busses July 10 following a departure ceremony prior to their flight to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. Kononenko, On the far right are Expedition 42/43 crewmembers Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency and NASA’s Terry Virts, who returned to Earth in June after 6 ½ months on the International Space Station. Kononenko, Lindgren and Yui will launch on their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft July 23 from Baikonur for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.