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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 52-53 Flight Engineer Randy Bresnik (right) pitches in with a shovel full of dirt July 22 and he and his crewmates, Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (center) plant 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.