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With St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow’s Red Square serving as a backdrop, Expedition 48-49 prime crew member Kate Rubins of NASA (left) and her backup, veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson of NASA (right) pose for pictures May 31 during a ceremonial pre-launch visit. Rubins, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency 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.