At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 56 backup crew member Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos signs in for the final Soyuz qualification exams May 10 as crewmate Anne McClain of NASA looks on. They and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (right) are the backups to the prime crew of Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, who will launch June 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger.