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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 63 prime and backup crewmembers raise the Russian, U.S. and Kazakh flags March 26 in a traditional ceremony. From left to right are prime crewmembers Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos, prime crewmember Chris Cassidy of NASA and his backup, Steve Bowen of NASA and backup crewmembers Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrei Babkin. 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.