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From a unique perspective at the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 52-53 backup and prime crewmembers pose for pictures July 22 in the midst of pre-launch training. From left to right are the prime crewmembers, Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Randy Bresnik of NASA, and the backup crewmembers, Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and Mark Vande Hei of NASA. Ryazanskiy, Bresnik and Nespoli will launch July 28 on the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.