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At the Space Museum in the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 53-54 backup crewmembers Scott Tingle of NASA (left), Shannon Walker of NASA (center) and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos (right) receive a briefing on the layout of the Baikonur Cosmodrome from a museum guide in a traditional pre-launch activity Sept. 8. They are serving as backups to the prime crewmembers, Joe Acaba of NASA, Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and Mark Vande Hei of NASA, who will launch on Sept. 13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.

Expedition 53-54 backup crew members visit the Space Museum

jsc2017e115218 (Sept.. 8, 2017) --- At the Space Museum in the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 53-54 backup crewmembers Scott Tingle of NASA (left), Shannon Walker of NASA (center) and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos (right) receive a briefing on the layout of the Baikonur Cosmodrome from a museum guide in a traditional pre-launch activity Sept. 8. They are serving as backups to the prime crewmembers, Joe Acaba of NASA, Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and Mark Vande Hei of NASA, who will launch on Sept. 13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.

Image Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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