Expedition 55 Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos prepares to have his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for launch aboard the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Kazakhstan. Artemyev and flight engineers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold of NASA launched aboard the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft at 1:44 Eastern time (11:44 Baikonur time) on March 21 to begin their journey to the International Space Station.

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