Expedition 44 Crew Undergoes Final Training Outside Moscow.

Expedition 44 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren and Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and their backups, Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos, Tim Kopra of NASA and Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency conducted final qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia May 6 and 7. Kononenko, Lindgren and Yui are scheduled to launch on May 27, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft to the International Space Station for a 5 ½ month mission.
VIDEO CREDIT: NASA.