Expedition 54-55 prime crew members pose for pictures by a model of a Soyuz rocket Dec. 11.
jsc2017e137343 – At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 54-55 prime crew members Scott Tingle of NASA (left), Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, right) pose for pictures by a model of a Soyuz rocket Dec. 11. They will launch Dec. 17 on the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a five month mission on the International Space Station…Andrey Shelepin / Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center