Expedition 59 crew member Christina Koch of NASA listens to reporters’ questions in front of a Soyuz spacecraft simulator Feb. 20 during the second day of final pre-launch qualifications exams.
jsc2019e004068 (Feb. 20, 2019) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 59 crew member Christina Koch of NASA listens to reporters’ questions in front of a Soyuz spacecraft simulator Feb. 20 during the second day of final pre-launch qualifications exams. 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