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At the Baikonur Museum in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 backup crew members David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (left), Anne McClain of NASA (center) and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (right) enjoy a cup of tea May 21 in a model of a “yurt”, a traditional Kazakh tent, during pre-launch activities. They are the backups to the prime crew members, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, who will launch June 6 on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from Baikonur for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.