NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, seated left, Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos, seated center, and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), seated right, have their picture taken with Expedition 48 backup crew members Peggy Whitson of NASA, left, Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, center, and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency prior to launching onboard their Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft Thursday, July 7, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Rubins, Ivanishin, and Onishi launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the morning of July 7, Kazakh time (July 6 Eastern time.) All three will spend approximately four months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in October.
NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin
2016-07-07
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