William Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations is seen on the launch pad with the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 54 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, and flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched at 2:21 EST (1:21 Baikonur time) on Dec. 17 to begin a five month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

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