At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 56 backup crew members Anne McClain of NASA (left), Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (center) and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (right) report for their final Soyuz spacecraft qualification exams May 10. They are the backups to the prime crew of 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.
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NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger
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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 56 backup crew members Anne McClain of NASA (left), Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (center) and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (right) report for their final Soyuz spacecraft qualification exams May 10. They are the backups to the prime crew of 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.