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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 56 crewmembers Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA (left), Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (center) and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (right) pose for pictures in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin May 19 before boarding a bus 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

jsc2018e050025 - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 56 crewmembers Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA (left), Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (center) and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (right) pose for pictures in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin May 19 before boarding a bus 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.