At the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Expedition 42/43 prime crew members Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency, NASA Flight Engineer Terry Virts and Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) pay homage to Russian space icons buried in Red Square, during a traditional laying of flowers, on 6 November 2014.
Samantha Cristoforetti is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the ISS, scheduled for November 2014.