Expedition 49 backup crewmember Mark Vande Hei of NASA takes a photo of a model of a Soyuz rocket on its launch pad in a local museum Sept. 10 during a tour of the city of Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Vande Hei and two Russian cosmonauts from Roscosmos are serving as backups to Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, who will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-02 vehicle for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.
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Expedition 49 backup crewmember Mark Vande Hei of NASA takes a photo of a model of a Soyuz rocket on its launch pad in a local museum Sept. 10 during a tour of the city of Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Vande Hei and two Russian cosmonauts from Roscosmos are serving as backups to Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, who will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-02 vehicle for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.