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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 51 crewmember Jack Fischer of NASA (left) exchanges morning greetings with his backup, Randy Bresnik of NASA April 5 as they prepared to fly to the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch preparations. Fischer and Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from Baikonur for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station.