Expedition 46/47 prime crew member Tim Kopra signs in for the start of two days of qualification exams.
JSC2015E102534 (11/19/2015) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 46-47 prime crew member Tim Kopra of NASA signs in for the start of two days of qualification exams Nov. 19. Kopra, Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Tim Peake of the European Space Agency will launch Dec. 15 in the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Seth Marcantel