Expedition 54 prime crew members flight engineer Norishige Kanai of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, along with backup crew members Jeanette Epps of NASA, Sergey Prokopev of Roscosmos, and Alex Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), are seen as they enter a room for a press conference, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 54 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, and flight engineer Norishige Kanai of Japan Aer

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Expedition 54 prime crew members flight engineer Norishige Kanai of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, along with backup crew members Jeanette Epps of NASA, Sergey Prokopev of Roscosmos, and Alex Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), are seen as they enter a room for a press conference, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 54 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, and flight engineer Norishige Kanai of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 17. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

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