AirshowAt their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur crewmembers applaud during pre-launch flag raising ceremonies.

AirshowAt their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 57 prime and backup crewmembers applaud during traditional pre-launch flag raising ceremonies Sept. 27. From left to right are backup crewmembers David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and prime crewmembers Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA. Ovchinin and Hague of will launch Oct. 11 on the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.