Expedition 59 crew member Christina Koch of NASA lays flowers where Russian space icons are interred in traditional ceremonies Feb. 21.
jsc2019e004436 (Feb. 21, 2019) — At the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Expedition 59 crew member Christina Koch of NASA lays flowers where Russian space icons are interred in traditional ceremonies Feb. 21. Koch, Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will launch March 14, U.S. time, on 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: Andrey Shelepin/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center