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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 crewmembers Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA (left), Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (center) and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (right) pose for pictures May 29 after Aunon-Chancellor and Prokopyev planted trees bearing their names in traditional pre-launch activities for first-time fliers. Aunon-Chancellor, Prokopyev and Gerst will launch June 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

jsc2018e050832 - At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 crewmembers Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA (left), Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (center) and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (right) pose for pictures May 29 after Aunon-Chancellor and Prokopyev planted trees bearing their names in traditional pre-launch activities for first-time fliers. Aunon-Chancellor, Prokopyev and Gerst will launch June 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.

Photographer Victor Zelentsov