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Wearing native garb, Expedition 49 backup crewmembers Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Alexander Misurkin and Nikolai Tikhonov of Roscosmos enjoy a cup a tea in a traditional Kazakh setting at a local museum Sept. 10 while on a tour of the city of Baikonur, Kazakhstan. They 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.