Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 49 to the International Space Station, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kimbrough and his crew mates, Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Oct. 19.

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