Expedition 53-54 backup crew members Shannon Walker of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and Scott Tingle of NASA arrive in Baikonur, Kazakhstan Aug. 27 for the first of two prelaunch training trips.
Expedition 53-54 backup crew members Shannon Walker of NASA (left), Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos (center) and Scott Tingle of NASA (right) arrive in Baikonur, Kazakhstan Aug. 27 for the first of two prelaunch training trips. They are the backups to Joe Acaba of NASA, Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and Mark Vande Hei of NASA, who are scheduled to launch Sept. 13 on the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a five-month mission to the International Space Station. It will be the first time since June 2010 that two American astronauts will have launched on the Russian Soyuz vehicle.
Image Credit: NASA/Alexander Vysotsky