Expedition 40/41 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left), Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (center) and NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman are greeted by local well-wishers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan May 15 as they arrived for final pre-launch training. Gerst, Suraev and Wiseman are scheduled to launch May 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft from Baikonur for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.
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Expedition 40/41 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left), Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (center) and NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman are greeted by local well-wishers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan May 15 as they arrived for final pre-launch training. Gerst, Suraev and Wiseman are scheduled to launch May 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft from Baikonur for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.