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With St. Basil’s Cathedral at Red Square in Moscow serving as a backdrop, spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates flashes a thumbs up sign Sept. 5 during traditional pre-flight activities. Almansoori and Expedition 61 crewmembers Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and Jessica Meir of NASA will launch Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft for a mission on the International Space Station.