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Expedition 63 crewmembers Chris Cassidy of NASA, seated left, Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos, seated right, pose for a photo with backup crew members Steve Bowen of NASA, standing left, Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrei Babkin and of Roscosmos , standing right after the crew had their Sokol suits pressure checked prior to launch on a Soyuz rocket, Thursday, April 9, 2020 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A few hours later, they lifted off for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.