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During a tour of the city of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 57 back up crew members Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency paid tribute to Sergei Korolev, the Russian space designer icon Sept. 27 at his statue in traditional pre-launch ceremonies. They are the backups to the prime crew, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA, who will launch Oct. 11 on the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.