Expedition 53-54 crewmembers aboard the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Aircraft en route from their training base to their launch site.
jsc2017e114748 (Sept. 6, 2017) — Aboard the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Aircraft en route from their training base to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training, Expedition 53-54 crewmembers Joe Acaba of NASA (left), Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos (center) and Mark Vande Hei of NASA (right) pose for pictures Sept. 6. They will launch Sept. 13 on the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov