AirshowIn the town of Baikonur Kazakhstan lays flowers at the statue of Yuri Gagarin the first human to fly in space.

AirshowIn the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 backup crewmember David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency lays flowers at the statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space as his crewmates look on during traditional pre-launch activities May 21. Saint-Jacques, Anne McClain of NASA and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos are the backups to the prime crew, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, who will launch June 6 on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from Baikonur for a six-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.