Next Station Crew Prep for Launch

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Expedition 41/42 Final Exams

Expedition 41/42 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samoukutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos conducted final qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. They are scheduled for a Sept. 25 launch in the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft to begin a six-month mission on the International Space Station.

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Primary crew for next ISS space mission approved

The upcoming space expedition will be notable for the fact that a Russian woman cosmonaut, Yelena Serova, will take part in a space mission for the first time in the past 20 years

STAR CITY, September 05. /ITAR-TASS/. The inter-agency commission of the Cosmonauts' Training Center on Friday approved the primary crew lineup for the spaceship Soyuz TMA-14M. The crew consists of Roscosmos (Russia's Federal Space Agency) cosmonauts Aleksandr Samokutyayev and Yelena Serova, as well as NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore. The backup crew comprises Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Korniyevko, as well as American astronaut Scott Kelly.

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Astronauts: Geopolitical Tensions Not to Affect ISS Cooperation

MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti) - The current geopolitical situation will not interfere with the joint work of Russian and American astronauts, ISS crew members told journalists on Friday.

“We carry out work that is necessary for the whole of humanity. There are no borders in space,” said cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyayev from the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, in response to journalists’ questions on whether the current geopolitical situation would affect the relationship between astronauts on the International Space Station.

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Expedition 41/42 Crew Conducts News Conference and Traditional Ceremonies in Russia

Expedition 41/42 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos and their backups, Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos, Scott Kelly of NASA and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos, conducted a pre-launch news conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Sept. 5, then toured Red Square and the Kremlin in Moscow where they laid flowers at the Kremlin Wall where Russian space icons are interred. Samokutyaev, Wilmore and Serova are scheduled for a Sept. 26 launch, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft to begin a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Serova will become only the fourth Russian female cosmonaut to fly in space. Kelly and Kornienko are scheduled to launch in March 2015 on a one-year mission on the space station.

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