Expedition 57 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin Sept. 25 before departing for their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training.
jsc2018e084306 (Sept. 24, 2018) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 57 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin Sept. 25 before departing for their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. From left to right are backup crew members David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and the prime crew members, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA, who will launch Oct. 11 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger