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Bundled up against a blizzard, the Expedition 55 backup and prime crewmembers pose for pictures with the statue of Vladimir Lenin as a backdrop March 4 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia before flying to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From left to right are backup crewmembers Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, and prime crewmembers Ricky Arnold of NASA, Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and Drew Feustel of NASA. Arnold, Artemyev and Feustel will launch March 21 on the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft for a five month mission on the International Space Station.