At the Tsar Bell at the Kremlin in Moscow, the Expedition 48-49 prime crewmembers pose for pictures May 31 during traditional pre-launch ceremonies. From left to right are prime crewmembers Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and backup crewmembers Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency. Rubins, Ivanishin and Onishi are scheduled to launch June 24 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft for a four-month mission on the Internati


At the Tsar Bell at the Kremlin in Moscow, the Expedition 48-49 prime crewmembers pose for pictures May 31 during traditional pre-launch ceremonies. From left to right are prime crewmembers Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and backup crewmembers Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency. Rubins, Ivanishin and Onishi are scheduled to launch June 24 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft for a four-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Stephanie Stoll Soyuz MS-01 prime and backup crews in front of the Tsar Bell


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