At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, trainers keep tabs on the work of Expedition 51 crewmembers Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Jack Fischer of NASA through a bank of video monitors and data displays March 30 as the crew conducted the first of two days of final qualification exams. Yurchikhin and Fischer will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station.
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Star City Moscow
Author
NASA/Rob Navias
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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, trainers keep tabs on the work of Expedition 51 crewmembers Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Jack Fischer of NASA through a bank of video monitors and data displays March 30 as the crew conducted the first of two days of final qualification exams. Yurchikhin and Fischer will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station.