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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 49 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures Sept. 8 before departing on a flight to the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From left to right are backup crewmembers Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Alexander Misurkin and Nikolai Tikhonov of Roscosmos, and prime crewmembers Shane Kimbrough of NASA (left) and Sergey Ryzhikov (center) and Andrey Borisenko (right) of Roscosmos. Kimbrough, Ryzhikov and Borisenko will launch on Sept. 24, Kazakh time on the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.