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With a picture of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space peering over her shoulder, Expedition 48-49 prime crewmember Kate Rubins of NASA poses for pictures May 27 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia before boarding a Soyuz simulator for final qualification exams. Rubins, Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos 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.