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Expedition 52-53 backup crewmembers Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, far left), Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left and center) and Mark Vande Hei of NASA (left and right) are greeted by Russian space officials after their arrival at their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan July 16 following a flight from their training base in Star City, Russia. The prime crew, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, Randy Bresnik of NASA and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency will launch July 28 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.