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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 44 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures during media day activities July 15. From left to right are backup crewmembers Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency, Yuir 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. Yui, Kononenko and Lindgren will launch July 23, Kazakh time on the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.