Expedition 51 crew members Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer answer reporters' questions April 5 before departing for their launch site.
jsc2017e039777 (04/05/2017) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the statue of Vladimir Lenin serves as a backdrop as Expedition 51 crew members Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Jack Fischer of NASA (right) answer reporters’ questions April 5 before departing for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. Fischer and Yurchikhin will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from Baikonur for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo: NASA/Rob Navias