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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 58 backup crew member Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency conducts vestibular system response training in a spinning chair Nov. 27 as part of pre-launch training. He is one of the backups to prime crewmembers 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...