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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 56 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures May 29 flanking a model of a Soyuz rocket. From left to right are the prime crewmembers, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA and their backups, Anne McClain of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency. 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

jsc2018e050836 - At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 56 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures May 29 flanking a model of a Soyuz rocket. From left to right are the prime crewmembers, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA and their backups, Anne McClain of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency. 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