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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 56 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures May 14 following a crew news conference. From left to right are the prime crew members, Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and their backups, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Anne McClain of NASA. Auñón-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.