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Along the Walk of the Cosmonauts at the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 63 crewmember Chris Cassidy of NASA lays flowers March 27 at the site where the tree bearing the name of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space, is planted. March 27, 2020 marked the 52nd anniversary of Gagarin’s death at the age of 34. Looking on are cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, the Deputy Director of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, and Cassidy’s crewmates, Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos. Cassidy, Vagner and Ivanishin will launch April 9 on the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.