Published on March 20, 2017
Expedition 46/47 prime crew members Timothy Kopra of NASA, Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency and their backups, Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) conducted final qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia Nov. 19 and 20. Kopra, Malenchenko and Peake are scheduled to launch Dec. 15, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
