Expedition 51-52 Crew Conducts Traditional Ceremonies in Star City and Moscow, Russia
Expedition 51-52 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA along with their backups, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Randy Bresnik of NASA visited the Gagarin Museum at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia April 3 where they viewed historic space artifacts, then visited Red Square in Moscow for traditional ceremonies, including the laying of flowers at the Kremlin Wall where Russian space icons are interred. Yurchikhin and Fischer are scheduled to launch on April 20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station.