Aboard a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft bound for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 49-50 crewmembers Shane Kimbrough of NASA (left), and Andrey Borisenko (center) and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos (right) affix an Expedition 50 crew decal to a door Sept. 8 in a traditional ceremony. The trio will launch on Sept. 24, Kazakh time on the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov Soyuz MS-02 crew aboard a Russian Federal Space Agency aircraft

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