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Aboard a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft en route to the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 54-55 crewmember Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) affixes a sticker bearing the Expedition 55 crew insignia to the wall of the plane Dec. 4 as crewmates Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, center) and Scott Tingle of NASA (right) look on. They will launch Dec. 17 on the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station...