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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 backup crewmember Anne McClain of NASA receives a silver pin bearing an emblem of the town from a local official as crewmate Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos looks on. Along with David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, they are serving as backups to the prime crew, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, who 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

jsc2018e050015 - At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 backup crewmember Anne McClain of NASA receives a silver pin bearing an emblem of the town from a local official as crewmate Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos looks on. Along with David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, they are serving as backups to the prime crew, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, who 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