A mosaic welcoming visitors is seen outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. Expedition 54 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, and flight engineer Norishige Kanai of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:21 Eastern Time (1:21 Baikonur) on Sunday, Dec. 17 and will spend the next five months living and working aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

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