Expedition 61 crewmembers Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos (center), Jessica Meir of NASA (right) and spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates (left) answer reporters' questions before traveling to a nearby airfield for a flight to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
jsc2019e052748 – At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the image of Vladimir Lenin serves as a backdrop as spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates (left) and Expedition 61 crewmembers Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos (center) and Jessica Meir of NASA (right) answer reporters’ questions Sept. 10 before traveling to a nearby airfield for a flight to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will launch on Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft for a mission on the International Space Station. Image: NASA/Beth Weissinger