Expedition 42/43 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Terry Virts and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency and their backups, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, Kjell Lindgren of NASA and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, conducted final qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia October 30 and 31. Shkaplerov, Virts and Cristoforetti are scheduled to launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to begin a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.
