Final qualification exams

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, on 6 May2014, training instructors look over a bank of monitors as they conduct the first of two days of final qualification exams for the Expedition 40/41 crew.

Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Reid Wiseman of NASA are in the homestretch of training for launch May 29, Kazakh time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft to spend 5 ½ months on the International Space Station.