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Expedition 51 Backup Crew Members Sergey Ryazanskiy and Randy Bresnik

Expedition 51 Backup Crew Members Sergey Ryazanskiy and Randy Bresnik
Expedition 51 backup crew members Sergey Ryazanskiy and Randy Bresnik pose in front of a Soyuz training mockup.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 51 backup crew members Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Randy Bresnik of NASA (right) pose for pictures in front of a Soyuz training mockup March 30 at the start of final crew qualification exams. They are backups to Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Jack Fischer of NASA, who 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.