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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) listen to a briefing by technicians Dec. 5 for the first fit check dress rehearsal activity in the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft. They will launch Dec. 17 in the Soyuz MS-07 vehicle for a five-month mission on the International Space Station