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Expedition 56 backup and prime crew members pose for pictures

Expedition 56 backup and prime crew members pose for pictures
Expedition 56 backup and prime crew members pose for pictures.

jsc2018e050835 (May 29, 2018) — At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 56 backup and prime crew members pose for pictures May 29 in front of a model of a Soyuz rocket. From left to right are the backup crew members, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Anne McClain of NASA and the prime crew, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency. Aunon-Chancellor, Prokopyev and Gerst will launch June 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov