With a tree-shrouded statue of Vladimir Lenin serving as a backdrop at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 52-53 crewmember Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) answers a reporter’s question July 16 as his crewmates, Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (left) and Randy Bresnik of NASA (right) look on. The trio flew to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training for their launch July 28 on the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft and a five-month mission on the International Space Station.