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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia and suited in their Sokol launch and entry suits, Expedition 48-49 prime crew members Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (closest on the right) meet Russian and American space officials May 27 before conducting their final Soyuz qualification exams. Rubins, Ivanishin and Onishi will launch June 24 on the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a four-month mission on the International Space Station.