Expedition 39/40 Crew Undergoes Final Training Outside Moscow

Expedition 39/40 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Steve Swanson and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos conducted final qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia March 4 and 5. The three are scheduled for a March 26 launch, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft to begin a six-month mission on the International Space Station.Expedition 39/40 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Steve Swanson and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos conducted final qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia March 4 and 5. The three are scheduled for a March 26 launch, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft to begin a six-month mission on the International Space Station.