At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 44/45 crewmembers Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency pay homage to Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space, during a traditional ceremony July 8 in which they laid flowers at his statue. Lindgren, Kononenko and Yui will launch on their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 23 for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.