Expedition 49 crewmember Sergey Ryzhikov leads a crowd of people to a waiting bus on the International Space Station.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 49 crewmember Sergey Ryzhikov leads a crowd of people to a waiting bus Sept. 8 that took him, Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos to nearby Chkalovsky Airfield and a flight to the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where they will launch on Sept. 24, Kazakh time on the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.

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