Expedition 56 flight engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, top, flight engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, middle, and Soyuz Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, bottom, wave farewell prior to boarding the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for launch June 6, 2018 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

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