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During a tour of the city of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 46-47 backup crewmembers posed for pictures at the statue of the Russian Great Designer, Sergey Korolev Dec. 2. From left to right are Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Kate Rubins of NASA. They are serving as backups to the prime crewmembers, Tim Kopra of NASA, Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Tim Peake of the European Space Agency, who will launch on Dec. 15 on the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.