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Expedition 41 Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to departing the hotel for launch in a Soyuz rocket with fellow crew mates, Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev and Flight Engineer Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Sept. 25, 2014 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for the early hours of Sept. 26, Kazakhstan time, and will carry Wilmore, Samokutyaev, and Serova into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.