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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, top) and Scott Tingle of NASA (bottom) run through their procedures in the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft Dec. 5 as part of the first fit check dress rehearsal activities. Kanai, Tingle 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