ESA astronaut Tim Peake (GB) is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft to the International Space Station, scheduled for November 2015 and as part of Expedition 46/47, with cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra. Tim, Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra will transfer from Expedition 46 to Expedition 47, which is scheduled to begin with the departure of Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016, and will be joined by cosmonauts Alexei Ovinchin and Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams later that March.
The design for Expedition 47 was created by artists Tim Gagnon and Jorge Cartes, which is based on a stylised Sokol spacesuit helmet visor and shows the view of the International Space Station that would be seen by the crew as they approach in their Soyuz.