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With St. Basil’s Cathedral serving as a backdrop, the next crew to launch to the International Space Station and their backups walk through Red Square in Moscow Sept. 5 as part of traditional pre-launch activities. From right to left are Expedition 61 crewmembers Jessica Meir of NASA and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates and backups, Tom Marshburn of NASA and Sultan Al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates. Meir, Skripochka and Almansoori will launch Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft for a mission on the International Space Station.