ISS main, backup crew to fly to Baikonur for final training

The crews, as usual, will fly to Baikonur from Chkalovsky airport outside Moscow in two planes. This is done for security reasons, although there not a single incident has happened in the history of flights from Chkalovsky to Baikonur, Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield and NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn are to make at Baikonur two final fitting of the Sokol spacesuits and examine their Soyuz TMA-07M spaceship on which they will fly in orbit in two weeks.
Together with the main crew, their backups - Fyodor Yurchikhin, Luca Parmitano and Karen Nyberg will conduct the final operations before the start. They will be on standby until the launch when the main take their seats in the spacecraft at the launch pad.
The launch of the Soyuz TMA-07M spaceship from Baikonur is scheduled for December 19, and its docking with the ISS - for December 21.