Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka (center in red shirt) handed command of the International Space Station to NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (front left with microphone) on Sept. 5, 2015. In the background the rest of the space station crew was on hand (from left to right): ESA(European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen (back), Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, Sergey Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren.