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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 44 prime crewmember Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plants a tree in his name in a traditional pre-launch ceremony July 15. Assisting from left to right are are backup crew members Timothy Kopra of NASA, Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency and Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and prime crewmember Oleg Kononenko. On the far right is prime crewmember Kjell Lindgren of NASA. 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.