Soyuz TMA-18M crew members, Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov, Roscosmos spacecraft commander Sergei Volkov and ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, receive the traditional blessing from a Russian Orthodox priest prior to departing for the Baikonour cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, on 2 September 2015.
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