Expedition 51 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos has his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for launch aboard the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft on Thursday, April 20, 2017, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for 1:13pm April 20 Baikonur time, and will carry Yurchikhin and fellow crewmate, Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

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