Published on October 18, 2017
Expedition 52-53 Soyuz Commander Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Randy Bresnik of NASA and Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), and their backups, Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency conducted final qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia July 6 and 7. Ryazanskiy, Bresnik and Nespoli are scheduled to launch July 28 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft for a four-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station.
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