Expedition 42/43 Crew Prepares for Launch in Kazakhstan

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 42/43 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Terry Virts and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency participated in a variety of activities from November 11-18 as they prepared for their launch to the International Space Station on November 24, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft.