Shaking hands before final test

November 29, 2017

MOSCOW- Members of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 54/55, NASA astronaut Scott Tingle (left), Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (center) and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shake hands before their final exam at the Gagarin Cosmonauts' Training Centre in Star City outside Moscow on November 29, 2017.

The launch of the Soyuz MS-07 is scheduled for December 17 from the Russian-leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome.

Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), a member of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 54/55, attends his final exam at the Gagarin Cosmonauts' Training Centre in Star City outside Moscow on November 29, 2017. Jiji Press