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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 backup crewmembers, Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and the prime crew, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, Randy Bresnik of NASA and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency. 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.