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Christina Koch of NASA at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

Christina Koch of NASA at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
Expedition 59 crew member Christina Koch of NASA signs in for the second day of final pre-launch qualification exams Feb. 20.

jsc2019e004065 (Feb. 20, 2019) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 59 crew member Christina Koch of NASA signs in for the second day of final pre-launch qualification exams Feb. 20. Koch, Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will launch March 14, U.S. time, in the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Beth Weissinger