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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 63 prime crewmembers Ivan Vagner (front left) and Anatoly Ivanishin (front center) of Roscosmos and NASA’s Chris Cassidy (front right) carry flowers March 23 to the statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space, as part of pre-launch activities. Behind them are the backup crewmembers, Andrey Babkin and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos and NASA’s Steve Bowen. Vagner, Ivanishin and Cassidy 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.