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In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 56 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures May 20 during their first Soyuz fit check dress rehearsal activities. In the front row are prime crewmembers Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA (left), Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (center) and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (right). In the back row are their backups, Anne McClain of NASA (left), Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (center) and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (right). Aunon-Chancellor, Prokopyev and Gerst will launch June 6 on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from Baikonur for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

jsc2018e049996 - In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 56 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures May 20 during their first Soyuz fit check dress rehearsal activities. In the front row are prime crewmembers Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA (left), Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (center) and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (right). In the back row are their backups, Anne McClain of NASA (left), Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (center) and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (right). Aunon-Chancellor, Prokopyev and Gerst will launch June 6 on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from Baikonur for a six-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.

Photographer Victor Zelentsov