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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 crew members Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA (front row, left), Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (center) and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (right) take a stroll down the Walk of Cosmonauts May 29 as part of their traditional pre-launch activities. Behind them are the backup crew members, Anne McClain of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency. Aunon-Chancellor, Prokopyev and Gerst 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.