Expedition 53 flight engineer Mark Vande Hei of NASA, top, flight engineer Joe Acaba of NASA, and Soyuz Commander Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, bottom, wave farewell before boarding their Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, (Kazakh time) (Sept. 12, time). Acaba, Misurkin, and Vande Hei will spend approximately five and half months on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) Soyuz MS-06 crew waves farewell in Baikonur

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