Expedition 49 Preflight

Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA left, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov take part in the traditional tree planing ceremony at the Cosmonaut Hotel on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kimbrough, Ryzhikov and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on September 24 Kazakh time. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)