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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 63 backup crewmembers Steve Bowen of NASA (left) and Sergey Ryzhikov (center) and Andrei Babkin of Roscosmos (right) pose for pictures March during Soyuz qualification exams March 11. They are the backups to Chris Cassidy of NASA and Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos, who are scheduled to launch April 9 in the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.

Expedition 63 backup crew members during Soyuz qualification exams

jsc2020e016218 (March 11, 2020) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 63 backup crewmembers Steve Bowen of NASA (left) and Sergey Ryzhikov (center) and Andrei Babkin of Roscosmos (right) pose for pictures March during Soyuz qualification exams March 11. They are the backups to Chris Cassidy of NASA and Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos, who are scheduled to launch April 9 in the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.

Image Credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center/Andrey Shelepin
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