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Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer Start Final Qualification Exams

Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer Start Final Qualification Exams
Expedition 51 crew members Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer.

jsc2017e038909 (03/31/2017) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 51 crew member Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) smiles as his crew mate, Jack Fischer of NASA (right) signs in March 31 for the second of two days of of final qualification exams. Yurchikhin and Fischer will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Expedition 51. Photo: Rob Navias/NASA.