2834: At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the statue of Vladimir Lenin serves as a backdrop as Expedition 51 crewmembers Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Jack Fischer of NASA (right) answer reporters’ questions April 5 before departing for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. Fischer and Yurchikhin will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from Baikonur for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Rob Navias Soyuz MS-04 crew depar

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2834: At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the statue of Vladimir Lenin serves as a backdrop as Expedition 51 crewmembers Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Jack Fischer of NASA (right) answer reporters’ questions April 5 before departing for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. Fischer and Yurchikhin will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from Baikonur for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Rob Navias Soyuz MS-04 crew departs Star City

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