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Aboard their aircraft en route to their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 48-49 crew members Kate Rubins of NASA (left), Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos (center) and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (right) pose for pictures after affixing their mission insignia stickers to the wall June 24 following their departure from their training base in Star City, Russia. The trio will launch July 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft for a planned four-month mission on the International Space Station.