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At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 57 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures Oct. 6 in front of the cottage where the Russian space icon and “Great Designer” Sergei Korolev slept on the night before Yuri Gagarin launched on April 12, 1961 to become the first human to fly in space. From left to right are backup crewmembers David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, and prime crewmembers Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA. Hague and Ovchinin will launch Oct. 11 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.