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At the Baikonur Museum in the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 58 backup crew members Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (second from left), Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos (second from right) and Drew Morgan of NASA (far right) enjoy a traditional Kazakh tea ceremony dressed in native attire Nov. 21 as part of pre-launch activities. They are backups to Anne McClain of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, who will launch Dec. 3 on the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station...