Expedition 59 prime crew members and backup crew members share a moment Feb. 26 before departing for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training.
jsc2019e007197 (Feb. 26, 2019) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 59 prime crew members Christina Koch of NASA (left), Nick Hague of NASA (second from left), and backup crew members Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (second from right) and Drew Morgan of NASA (right) share a moment Feb. 26 before departing for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. Hague, Koch and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will launch on 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: NASA/Beth Weissinger