Expedition 59 crew members respond to reporters’ questions Feb. 26 as they prepared to depart for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training.
jsc2019e007189 (Feb. 26, 2019) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 59 crew members Christina Koch of NASA (left), Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos (center) and Nick Hague of NASA (right) respond to reporters’ questions Feb. 26 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