Expedition 48-49 prime crew members Takuya Onishi, Kate Rubins and Anatoly Ivanishin
jsc2016e076920 (06/24/2016) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 48-49 prime crew members Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (left), Kate Rubins of NASA (center) and Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos (right) walk to their bus June 24 as they departed for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. In the background on the left is backup crew member Peggy Whitson of NASA and in the background center is backup crew member Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos. Rubins, Ivanishin and Onishi will launch July 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft for a planned four-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Stephanie Stoll