The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft, encapsulated in its fairing, is rotated from a horizontal position back into a vertical position in its work platform on Thursday, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Victor Zelentsov)

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Keywords: 49, baikonur, cosmodrome, encapsulation, expedition, kaz, kazakhstan, ms-02, nasa, preflight, roscosmos, soyuz, space, victor, zelentsov