Expedition 59 crewmembers pose for pictures Feb. 26 in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin as they prepared to depart for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training.
jsc2019e007193 (Feb. 26, 2019) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 59 crewmembers Christina Koch of NASA (left), Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos (center) and Nick Hague of NASA (right) pose for pictures Feb. 26 in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin as they prepared to depart for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. They 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