Expedition 56 prime and backup crew members attend traditional flag-raising ceremonies May 21 as part of their pre-launch activities
jsc2018e050013 (May 20, 2018) — At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 56 prime and backup crew members attend traditional flag-raising ceremonies May 21 as part of their pre-launch activities. From left to right are backup crew members Anne McClain of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and prime crew embers Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency. Aunon-Chancellor, Prokopyev and Gerst will launch June 6 on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from Baikonur for a six-month mission on the International Space Station…NASA/Victor Zelentsov.