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In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 backup crew members David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (left), Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (center) and Anne McClain of NASA (right) pose for pictures May 31 in front of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft as part of their final inspection of the vehicle. They are the backups to the prime crew, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, who will launch June 6 in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.