Expedition 44 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), right, receives the traditional blessing from a Russian Orthodox priest at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to his launch on the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS), Wednesday, July 22, 2015, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. He and fellow crew mates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), center, and Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren of NASA, left, will spend the next five months living and working aboard the ISS.