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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 56 backup crew member David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency signs in for his final Soyuz qualification exam May 10 as crewmates Anne McClain of NASA (left) and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos look on. They are the backups to the prime crew of Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, who 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. NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger

jsc2018e043405 (May 10, 2018) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 56 backup crew member David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency signs in for his final Soyuz qualification exam May 10 as crewmates Anne McClain of NASA (left) and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos look on. They are the backups to the prime crew of Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, who 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...NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger.