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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 44/45 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures in the Gagarin Museum July 8. From left to right are backup crewmembers Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency, Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Timothy Kopra of NASA and prime crewmembers Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Lindgren, Kononenko and Yui will launch on their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 23 for a five-month mission on the International Space Station