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At the airport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, backup crewmembers Sultan Al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates (left) who is a spaceflight participant and Expedition 61 backups Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos (center) and Tom Marshburn of NASA (right) report to Russian space officials Sept. 10 upon their arrival at their launch site. They are the backups to the prime crew, spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates and Expedition 61 crewmembers Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and Jessica Meir of NASA, who will launch on Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft for a mission on the International Space Station.