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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 48-49 backup crew member Peggy Whitson of NASA (front row, left) signs a commemorative book May 31 following the crew’s news conference. Looking on are backup crewmates Oleg Novitskiy (front row, center) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (front row, right). In the back row from left to right are prime crew members Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Rubins, Ivanishin and Onishi are scheduled to launch June 24 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft for a four-month mission on the International Space Station.