4 – Expedition 57

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, launch pad gantry arms are seen closing around the Soyuz rocket in this long exposure photograph, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018.

Expedition 57 crew members Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos were scheduled to launch on October 11 on the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft for a six-month mission living and working aboard the International Space Station.

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