Stock Photo - At the Kremlin Wall in Moscow's Red Square, Expedition 48-49 backup crew member Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency lays flowers where Russian space icons are interred during traditional pre-launch ceremonies May 31. Prime crew members Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are scheduled to launch June 24 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft for a four-month mission on the International Space Station. NASAStephanie Stoll

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