Expedition 52 Red Square Visit

Expedition 52 flight engineers Paolo Nespoli of ESA, left, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, center, and Randy Bresnik of NASA visit Red Square to lay roses at the site where Russian space icons are interred as part of traditional pre-launch ceremonies, Monday, July 10, 2017 in Moscow. They will head to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 16 for final pre-launch training. On July 28, 2017, Sergey Ryazanskiy, Randy Bresnik and Paolo Nespoli will launch to the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. They will join the other three members of the Expedition 52 crew already on the station.

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Image Date: July 10, 2017

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