The Soyuz rocket and Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft is assembled at the Pad 1 complex at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Saturday, April 15, 2017, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft is scheduled for April 20 Baikonur time and will send Expedition 51 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station.

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