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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 49 crewmember Shane Kimbrough of NASA flashes a smile Sept. 8 as he prepares to board a bus that took him and Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos to nearby Chkalovsky Airfield and a flight to the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where they will launch on Sept. 24, Kazakh time on the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Stephanie Stoll

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 49 crewmember Shane Kimbrough of NASA flashes a smile Sept. 8 as he prepares to board a bus that took him and Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos to nearby Chkalovsky Airfield and a flight to the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where they will launch on Sept. 24, Kazakh time on the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Stephanie Stoll