At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 49-50 Soyuz Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA along with their backups, Alexander Misurkin and Nikolai Tikhonov of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei of NASA participated in a variety of activities Sept. 8-16 as they prepared for the launch of Kimbrough, Ryzhikov and Borisenko Sept. 24, Kazakh time, on the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. The footage includes the crew’s arrival in Baikonur, their Soyuz fit checks in the Cosmodrome Integration Facility, the ceremonial Cosmonaut Hotel flag-raising ceremony, encapsulation of the Soyuz spacecraft into its booster, and the crew’s traditional media day activities.

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