During a tour of a museum in Baikonur, Kazakhstan June 26, Expedition 48-49 backup crewmembers Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (left), Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos (center) and Peggy Whitson of NASA (right) pose for pictures in front of a mural depicting planets. Whitson, Novitskiy and Pesquet are backups to Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, who are preparing for launch on July 7, Baikonur time, on the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft for a planned four-month mission on the International Space Station...GCTC/Andrei Shelepin.

2016-06-26