The Expedition 49 backup crewmembers watch an amateur rocket demonstration Sept. 10 by a statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space, during a tour of the city of Baikonur, Kazakhstan. They are serving as backups to Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, who will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-02 vehicle for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.
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The Expedition 49 backup crewmembers watch an amateur rocket demonstration Sept. 10 by a statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space, during a tour of the city of Baikonur, Kazakhstan. They are serving as backups to Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, who will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-02 vehicle for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.