jsc2016e107485
At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 49-50 backup crewmember Mark Vande Hei of NASA signs in Aug. 30 for the start of final qualification exams. Vande Hei and Alexander Misurkin and Nikolai Tikhonov of Roscosmos are serving as backups to prime crewmembers Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Andrey Borisenko and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos who will launch on Sept. 24 (Kazakh time) on their Soyuz MS-02 vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Stephanie Stoll
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