At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 46-47 crew member Tim Kopra of NASA signs a ceremonial book at the Gagarin Museum Nov. 23 as backup crew member Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (background) looks on. Kopra, Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Tim Peake of the European Space Agency will launch on Dec. 15 on the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Seth Marcantel
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