NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren during the second day of qualification exams with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimya Yui, Thursday, May 7, 2015 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.
The Expedition 44/45 trio was preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.