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Expedition 58 backup crew members enjoy a traditional Kazakh tea ceremony

Expedition 58 backup crew members enjoy a traditional Kazakh tea ceremony
Expedition 58 backup crew members pose for pictures at the statue of Yuri Gagarin.

jsc2018e097316 (Nov. 21, 2018) — In the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 58 backup crew members Drew Morgan of NASA (left), Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos (center) and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (right) pose for pictures at the statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space Nov. 21, in a traditional ceremony. They are the backups to Anne McClain of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, who will launch Dec. 3 on the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov