A statue of a flying cosmonaut welcomes Expedition 49 prime and backup crew members: NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Mark Vande Hei, and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Andrey Borisenko, Alexander Misurkin, and Nikolai Tikhonov of Roscosmos to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) museum on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 in Star City, Russia. The Expedition 49 prime and backup crew members visited the museum as part of their traditional prelaunch ceremonies.

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