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Expedition 49 crewmembers Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos (left), Shane Kimbrough of NASA (center) and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos (right) are greeted by school children Sept. 8 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan after they arrived on a flight from their base at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia for final pre-launch training. The trio will launch on Sept. 24, Kazakh time on the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

Expedition 49 crewmembers Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos (left), Shane Kimbrough of NASA (center) and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos (right) are greeted by school children Sept. 8 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan after they arrived on a flight from their base at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia for final pre-launch training. The trio will launch on Sept. 24, Kazakh time on the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

Photographer Victor Zelentsov