The Expedition 49 backup crewmembers lay flowers at the statue of Soviet rocket Great Designer Sergey Korolev Kazakhstan Sept. 10.

The Expedition 49 backup crewmembers lay flowers at the statue of Soviet rocket Great Designer Sergey Korolev during a tour of the city of Baikonur, Kazakhstan Sept. 10. From left to right in their flight suits are Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Alexander Misurkin and Nikolai Tikhonov of Roscosmos. They are serving as backups to Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, who 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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