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jsc2018e050833 - At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 crewmember Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency waters a tree May 29 first planted prior to his initial flight into space in 2014 as crewmates Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA (center) and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos look on. They 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/Victor Zelentsov.