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At the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 54-55 prime crewmembers Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, left), Anton Shkaplerov the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Scott Tingle of NASA (right) answer reporters’ questions in front of the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft Dec. 13 at the conclusion of a second dress rehearsal fit check activity. They will launch Dec. 17 on the Soyuz MS-07 vehicle for a five month mission on the International Space Station