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jsc2017e100904 (July 18, 2017) --- Expedition 52-53 backup crewmembers Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left), Mark Vande Hei of NASA (second from left) and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, second from right) receive a briefing on some of the artifacts in the space museum in the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan July 18. The three are serving as backups to Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, Randy Bresnik of NASA and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, who will launch July 28 on the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov