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Aboard a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft en route to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 52-53 Flight Engineers Randy Bresnik of NASA (left), Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (right) point to the stickers bearing the Soyuz and Expedition 53 mission insignias that they affixed to the wall of the plane’s cabin July 16 in a traditional ceremony. Bresnik, Ryazanskiy Nespoli will launch July 28 from Baikonur on the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.