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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (left), who is the Deputy Director of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, presides over the traditional flag-raising ceremony March 26 as part of pre-launch activities for the Expedition 63 crew. The prime and backup crews are seen from left to right --- 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.