Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA lays flowers where Russian space icons are interred

jsc2018e048503 (May 14, 2018) — At the Kremlin Wall in Red Square in Moscow May 14, Expedition 56 crew member Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA lays flowers where Russian space icons are interred as part of traditional pre-launch ceremonies. Auñón-Chancellor, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency 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/Elizabeth Weissinger