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On the right, Expedition 63 backup crewmembers Steve Bowen of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrei Babkin of Roscosmos meet with Russian space officials March 24 after arriving at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch preparations following a flight from their training base at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. They are the backups to the prime crewmembers, Chris Cassidy of NASA and Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos, who will launch April 9 on the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.