
On this day: 21 November 2014, the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft was rolled out by train, from its integration facility at Baikonur Cosmodrome to launch pad 31, in Kazakhstan. This vehicle would take Expedition 42/43 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti with colleagues Anton Shkaplerov and Terry Virts to the ISS on 24 November 2014. http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/11/Soyuz_TMA-15M_spacecraft_roll_out9