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At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 backup crew members Anne McClain of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency receive a gift of flowers and congratulations from local officials May 21 as part of their 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.