Expedition 59 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures Feb. 21 following a pre-launch news conference.
jsc2019e004422 (Feb. 21, 2019) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 59 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures Feb. 21 following a pre-launch news conference. From left to right are the prime crewmembers, Christina Koch and Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, and the backup crewmembers, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos, Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Drew Morgan of NASA. Koch, Hague and Ovchinin will launch 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: Andrey Shelepin/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center