Expedition 59 crew member Christina Koch of NASA prepares to sign in for the start of two days of final pre-launch qualification exams Feb. 19.
jsc2019e003773 (Feb. 19, 2019) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 59 crew member Christina Koch of NASA prepares to sign in for the start of two days of final pre-launch qualification exams Feb. 19 as her crewmate, Nick Hague of NASA looks on. Koch, Hague and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will launch March 14, U.S. time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Beth Weissinger