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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 54-55 backup crewmember Jeanette Epps of NASA listens to a reporter’s question during a crew news conference Nov. 30. Epps is serving as one of the backups to the prime crew, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Scott Tingle of NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), who will launch Dec. 17 on the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.