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Expedition 56 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures

Expedition 56 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures
Expedition 56 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures.

jsc2018e050836 (May 29, 2018) — At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 56 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures May 29 flanking a model of a Soyuz rocket. From left to right are the prime crew members, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA and their backups, Anne McClain of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency. Aunon-Chancellor, Prokopyev and Gerst will launch June 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov