Expedition 59 prime and backup crew members at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Museum.
jsc2019e013418 (March 10, 2019) — At the Baikonur Cosmodrome Museum in Kazakhstan, a model of the world’s first satellite, Sputnik, serves as a hanging backdrop March 10 as the Expedition 59 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures in traditional pre-launch activities. From left to right are the prime crewmembers, Christina Koch of NASA, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA, and the backup crewmembers, Drew Morgan of NASA, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency. Koch, Hague and Ovchinin will launch March 14, U.S. time, in the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov