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With family members and officials behind them, Expedition 41 Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (center) and Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos (right) walk to a waiting bus at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia Sept. 12 before flying to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final prelaunch training. They are scheduled to launch from Baikonur 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.