Expedition 44/45 crew member Kjell Lindgren of NASA at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.
At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 44/45 crew member Kjell Lindgren of NASA explains one of the historic space artifacts housed in the Gagarin Museum to his son during a ceremonial visit July 8. Lindgren, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch on their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 23 for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Seth Marcantel