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jsc2018e051937 - The Expedition 56 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures May 31 outside the cottage where Sergei Korolev, the iconic Russian space designer slept on the night before Yuri Gagarin launched on April 12, 1961 to become the first human to fly in space. Gagarin slept in an adjacent cottage to Korolev’s cottage the night before his launch. From left to right are the prime crewmembers, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and their backups, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Anne McClain of NASA. Aunon-Chancellor, Prokopyev and Gerst will launch June 6 in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. ..NASA/Victor Zelentsov.