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At the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 49 backup crewmembers Mark Vande Hei of NASA (left) and Alexander Misurkin (center) and Nikolai Tikhonov (right) of Roscosmos pose for pictures Sept. 9 in front of the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft during a pre-launch training fit check. They will back up the prime crewmembers, Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, who will launch Sept. 24, Kazakh time on the Soyuz MS-02 vehicle for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

At the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 49 backup crewmembers Mark Vande Hei of NASA (left) and Alexander Misurkin (center) and Nikolai Tikhonov (right) of Roscosmos pose for pictures Sept. 9 in front of the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft during a pre-launch training fit check. They will back up the prime crewmembers, Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, who will launch Sept. 24, Kazakh time on the Soyuz MS-02 vehicle for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

Photographer Victor Zelentsov