jsc2018e050024

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 56 crewmembers Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (far left), Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (second from left) and Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA walk to the bus May 19 that took them to a nearby airfield for a flight to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will launch June 6 on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from Baikonur for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.

NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger

jsc2018e050024 - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 56 crewmembers Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (far left), Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (second from left) and Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA walk to the bus May 19 that took them to a nearby airfield for a flight to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will launch June 6 on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from Baikonur for a six-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger.