Expedition 58 prime and backup crew members attend a flag-raising ceremony Nov. 21, part of their traditional pre-launch activities.
jsc2018e097312 (Nov. 21, 2018) — Outside the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 58 prime and backup crew members attend a flag-raising ceremony Nov. 21, part of their traditional pre-launch activities. From left to right are backup crewmembers Drew Morgan of NASA, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and prime crewmembers Anne McClain of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency. McClain, Kononenko and Saint-Jacques will launch Dec. 3 on the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov