Published on March 18, 2017
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 46-47 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Tim Kopra and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency, and their backups participated in final pre-launch training activities. Malenchenko, Kopra and Peake will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Dec. 15 for a six-month mission aboard International Space Station.
