At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 prime crew member Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA takes a spin in a rotating chair May 29 to test her vestibular system as part of pre-launch activities. Aunon-Chancellor, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos 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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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 prime crew member Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA takes a spin in a rotating chair May 29 to test her vestibular system as part of pre-launch activities. Aunon-Chancellor, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos 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.