SOYUZ CREWMEMBERS TRAIN FOR UPCOMING MISSION TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the prime crew for the Soyuz MS-26 launch to the International Space Station, NASA’s Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and their backups, NASA’s Jonny Kim, Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritskiy, conducted qualification training Aug. 20 and 21 for their upcoming trip to the orbital outpost. Pettit, Ovchinin and Vagner are scheduled to launch on Sept. 11 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a planned six-month mission to the complex.

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