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In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, unidentified Expedition 52-53 crewmembers display toys from their children July 17 outside their Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft during a fit check dress rehearsal. The toys are hung above the crewmembers’ heads in the Soyuz’ descent module compartment as weightless, or “zero-g” indicators during the launch phase of the mission. Randy Bresnik of NASA, Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency will launch July 28 on the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.