At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 42/43 crewmember Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (right) answers a reporter's question Nov. 11 while her crewmates, Terry Virts of NASA (left) and Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) look on. Virts, Shkaplerov and Cristoforetti later flew to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan where they will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time in their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.