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At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 58 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures Nov. 29 in front of the cottage where Yuri Gagarin slept on the night before his historic launch April 12, 1961 to become the first human to fly in space. From left to right are prime crewmembers Anne McClain of NASA, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and the backup crew, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos, Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Drew Morgan of NASA. McClain, Saint-Jacques and Kononenko will launch Dec. 3 in the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station...