Expedition 49 Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, left, and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, right, plant a tree during the traditional tree planing ceremony at the Cosmonaut Hotel on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Ryzhikov, Borisenko, and flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on September 24 Kazakh time. Victor Zelentsov)

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