Expedition 59 backup crew members rehearse rendezvous and docking techniques

jsc2019e013046 (March 9, 2019) --- At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 59 backup crew members Drew Morgan of NASA (left), Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos (center) and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (right) rehearse rendezvous and docking techniques on a laptop computer simulator March 7 as they conduct pre-launch preparations. They are the backups to the prime crew members, Christina Koch of NASA, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA, who will launch March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.