Outside the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 48-49 crewmember Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency tries out a pair of binoculars June 25 as he prepares for launch July 7, Baikonur time, on the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft with Kate Rubins of NASA and Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos for a planned four-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Alexander Vysotsky.

Outside the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 48-49 crewmember Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency tries out a pair of binoculars June 25 as he prepares for launch July 7, Baikonur time, on the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft with Kate Rubins of NASA and Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos for a planned four-month mission on the International Space Station.

NASA/Alexander Vysotsky

Outside the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 48-49 crewmember Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency tries out a pair of binoculars June 25 as he prepares for launch July 7, Baikonur time, on the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft with Kate Rubins of NASA and Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos for a planned four-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Alexander Vysotsky