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