Expedition 49 flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to departing the hotel for launch on a Soyuz rocket with fellow crewmates, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Borisenko, Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, and Shane Kimbrough of NASA will launch in their Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft to the International Space Station to begin a four month mission.

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