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Expedition 52-53 backup crewmembers Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left), Mark Vande Hei of NASA (center) and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, right) receive a briefing on a model of Soyuz rocket in the space museum in the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan July 18. The three are serving as backups to Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, Randy Bresnik of NASA and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, who will launch July 28 on the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.