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In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 54-55 crewmembers Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, left), Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Scott Tingle of NASA (right) pose for pictures Dec. 5 as part of their first fit check dress rehearsal activities. They will launch Dec. 17 in the Soyuz MS-07 vehicle for a five-month mission on the International Space Station