At the Baikonur Museum in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 backup crew members Anne McClain of NASA (left), David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (center) and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (right) are shown a bas relief model of the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site during a tour of the museum May 21 as part of traditional pre-launch activities. 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 on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from Baikonur for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
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At the Baikonur Museum in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 backup crew members Anne McClain of NASA (left), David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (center) and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (right) are shown a bas relief model of the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site during a tour of the museum May 21 as part of traditional pre-launch activities. 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 on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from Baikonur for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.