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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 63 prime and backup crews attend the traditional flag raising ceremony March 26 as part of their pre-launch activities. Seen from left to right are prime crewmembers Chris Cassidy of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos and the backup crewmembers, Steve Bowen of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrei Babkin of Roscosmos. Cassidy, Ivanishin and Vagner will launch April 9 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.