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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 52-53 Flight Engineers Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left), Randy Bresnik of NASA (center) and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (right) pose for pictures July 22 after planting a tree in Bresnik’s name in traditional pre-launch ceremonies. The trio will launch July 28 on the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.