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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 53-54 backup crewmember Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos (left) answers a reporter’s question during a news conference Sept. 1 while backup crewmates Shannon Walker (center) and Scott Tingle (right of NASA look on. They are serving as backups to the prime crew, Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA and Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, who will launch Sept. 13 on the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a five and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station.

Expedition 53-54 backup crew members during a news conference

jsc2017e114479 (Sept. 1, 2017) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 53-54 backup crewmember Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos (left) answers a reporter’s question during a news conference Sept. 1 while backup crewmates Shannon Walker (center) and Scott Tingle (right of NASA look on. They are serving as backups to the prime crew, Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA and Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, who will launch Sept. 13 on the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a five and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station.

Image Credit: NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger
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TakenSeptember 1, 2017
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