Next ISS crew heads to launch site

After participating in traditional ceremonies at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 40/41 Soyuz Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency, NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency departed for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to complete training for their May 29 launch to the International Space Station. Also making the trip were backup crew members, Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, Terry Virts of NASA and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency.

[EinkOLED]

3 wonderful guys, especially the commander. I think they'll have a great time on the iss and wish them good luck.

[AlexFictionFriction]

To think current tensions could ruin this wonderful collaboration 

[EJThaChiefa]

That one girl kinda looks like the girl off that movie gravity....good luck to them

[verioffkin]

Absolutely different people, absolutely different ways of doing things, absolutely differents cultures (though in russian case it's all soviet style, which is absolutely  invasive to real hundreds of years russian culture). But.
We Can Do These Things Together for the benefit of Whole World, Whole Mankind. 
Unfortunately russian current politicians DO NOT understand it.