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Behind their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 47-48 crewmember Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos (center) plants a tree in traditional pre-launch ceremonies March 12 as crewmates Jeff Williams of NASA (left) and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos (right) assist. In the background are back up crewmembers Shane Kimbrough of NASA (left), Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos (center) and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos (partially hidden, right). Williams, Ovchinin and Skripochka are conducting final training for their launch March 19, Kazakh time, on the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.