Stock Photo - Behind their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 41 Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA (front row, left), Flight Engineer Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), center; and Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of Roscosmos take a stroll down the Walk of Cosmonauts Sept. 17 as they continue their prelaunch preparations. Behind Wilmore is backup crew member Scott Kelly, who will launch in March 2015 with Mikhail Kornienko to spend a full year on the International Space Station. Wilmore, Serova and Samokutyaev are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Sept. 26, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the orbital complex. Serova will become the fourth Russian woman to fly in space and the first Russian woman to live and work on the station.Victor Zelentsov

Stock Photo: Behind their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 41 Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA (front row, left).

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