The Soyuz rocket and Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft are assembled Sunday, July 3, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the morning of July 7, Kazakh time (July 6 Eastern time.) All three will spend approximately four months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in October. Photo Credit: (NASA/Alexander Vysotsky) Expedition 48 Soyuz Rollout (NHQ201607030102)

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