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Expedition 54-55 Crew in Pre-Launch Training

Expedition 54-55 Crew in Pre-Launch Training
Expedition 54-55 prime crew members practice rendezvous and docking techniques on a laptop computer simulator Dec. 11 as part of their pre-launch training.

jsc2017e137334 – At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 54-55 prime crew members Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, left), Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Scott Tingle of NASA (right) practice rendezvous and docking techniques on a laptop computer simulator Dec. 11 as part of their pre-launch training. 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