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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 41 Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA is introduced to the media Sept. 5 at a crew news conference. His crewmates, Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, second from right) and Elena Serova of Roscosmos (far right) look on. They are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept. 26, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. Serova will become the fourth Russian woman to fly in space and the first Russian woman to conduct a long duration mission on the station.