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The service structure arms are seen being lowered in this long exposure photograph less than an hour before the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft launched to the International Space Station with Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, Russian Cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) onboard Mar. 27, 2015 US Eastern time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016.