Published on December 29, 2017
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, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos, Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency visited the Gagarin Museum where they viewed historic space artifacts at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia Nov. 23, then traveled to Moscow where they laid flowers at the Kremlin Wall in Red Square where Russian space icons are interred. Malenchenko, Kopra and Peake are scheduled to launch Dec. 15 in the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft to the International Space Station for a six-month mission.
