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jsc2019e053728 - At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 61 prime and backup crewmembers and spaceflight participants pose for pictures Sept. 18 around a Soyuz rocket model as part of pre-launch activities. From left to right are the prime crewmembers, spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates and Expedition 61 crewmembers Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and Jessica Meir of NASA, and Expedition 61 backup crewmembers Tom Marshburn of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos and backup spaceflight participant Sultan Al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates. Meir, Skripochka and Almansoori will launch Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft for a mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov