ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst in Soyuz TMA-13M, the spacecraft that will carry him, Roscosmos commander Maxim Suraev and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman to the International Space Station on 28 May 2014.
Five days before launch, the Expedition 40/41 astronauts took one last look at their spacecraft in the scaffolding. The next day it was rolled out to the pad for the flight to space.