At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur Kazakhstan the Expedition 49 crewmembers participate in a traditional ceremony.

At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 49 crewmembers participate in a traditional flag-raising ceremony Sept. 10. From left to right are prime crewmembers Shane Kimbrough of NASA, Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos and backup crewmembers Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Alexander Misurkin and Nikolai Tikhonov of Roscosmos. Kimbrough, Ryzhikov and Borisenko will launch on Sept. 24, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-02 vehicle for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.

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