15-49-09: At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA (left) peers through high-powered binoculars during a training session May 16 as Soyuz Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, right) looks on. Wiseman, Suraev and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency will launch from Baikonur on May 29, Kazakh time, on the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov
Photographer Victor Zelentsov
Date May 16, 2014