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18 Aug. 2015
Star City, Russia
Flight engineer 1, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, attends a farewell ceremony for the departure to Baikonur in front of a monument to Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Star City, Russia, August 18, 2015. Mogensen, Soyuz TMA-18M commander, cosmonaut Sergei Volkov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and flight engineer 2, Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov of the Kazcosmos are scheduled to be part of the expedition 45/46 to the International Space Station (ISS) that is expected to launch on September 2, according to Roscosmos official website. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin