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jsc2018e097313 - In the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 58 backup crewmembers Drew Morgan of NASA (left), Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency walk toward the statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space Nov. 21 as they prepare to lay flowers at the statue in a traditional ceremony. They are the backups to Anne McClain of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, who will launch Dec. 3 on the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.