Expedition 39 will begin in March 2014. The second half of the crew is scheduled to launch in March 2014.
Soyuz TMA-11M
Crew: Richard Mastracchio, Koichi Wakata, Mikhail Tyurin
Launch: Nov. 6, 2013, 11:14 p.m. EST
Docking: Nov. 7, 2013, 5:27 a.m. EST
Landing: May 2014
Soyuz TMA-12M
Crew: Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev, Steve Swanson
Launch: March 25, 2014
Landing: September 2014
Image above: Expedition 39 crew members take a break from training at NASA's Johnson Space Center to pose for a crew portrait. Pictured on the front row are Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata (right), commander; and NASA astronaut Steve Swanson, flight engineer. Pictured from the left (back row) are Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Alexander Skvortsov, Mikhail Tyurin and NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, all flight engineers. Photo credit: NASA
