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Expedition 56 backup crew member Anne McClain of NASA poses for pictures in the Kremlin gardens in Moscow May 14 as part of traditional pre-launch activities. McClain is serving as a backup to the prime crew, Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, who will launch June 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for a six month mission on the International Space Station.