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Expedition 56 crew members pictured after planting trees

Expedition 56 crew members pictured after planting trees
Expedition 56 crew members pictured after planting trees.

jsc2018e050832 (May 29, 2018) — At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 crew members Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA (left), Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (center) and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (right) pose for pictures May 29 after Aunon-Chancellor and Prokopyev planted trees bearing their names in traditional pre-launch activities for first-time fliers. 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