At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the ISS Expedition 48-49 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin June 24 as they departed for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From left to right are backup crewmembers Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency and prime crewmembers Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Rubins, Ivanishin and Onishi will launch July 7 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft for a planned four-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Stephanie Stoll.

2016-06-24