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Expedition 56 crewmembers Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (top right), Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA (center) and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos wave to a throng of schoolchildren May 19 upon their arrival at their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will launch June 6 on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

jsc2018e049988 - Expedition 56 crewmembers Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (top right), Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA (center) and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos wave to a throng of schoolchildren May 19 upon their arrival at their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will launch June 6 on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.

Photographer Victor Zelentsov