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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 49-50 prime crewmember Shane Kimbrough of NASA responds to a reporter's question Aug. 30 at the start of two days of final qualification exams. Kimbrough and Andrey Borisenko (right) and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are preparing for launch on Sept. 24 (Kazakh time) on their Soyuz MS-02 vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.