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Expedition 51 Backup Crew Members Jack Fischer and Fyodor Yurchikhin

Expedition 51 Backup Crew Members Jack Fischer and Fyodor Yurchikhin
Expedition 51 crew members Jack Fischer and Fyodor Yurchikhin begin final crew qualification exams.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 51 crew members Jack Fischer of NASA (left) and Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, right) flash broad smiles March 30 as they begin final crew qualification exams. They 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.