Expedition 47 Crew Departs For Kazakh Launch Site.

Expedition 47-48 Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin and Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA and their backups, Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos and Shane Kimbrough of NASA participated in traditional ceremonies at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, outside Moscow on March 3. Afterward, they departed for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to complete their training for the launch of Ovchinin, Williams and Skripochka to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft on March 19, Kazakh time, for a six-month mission.