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Waiting to greet their new Expedition 59 crewmates

Waiting to greet their new Expedition 59 crewmates
Three International Space Station crew members wait inside the Rassvet module to greet their new Expedition 59 crewmates.

iss059e000040 (March 15, 2019) — Waiting inside the Rassvet module to greet their new Expedition 59 crewmates are (foreground to back) Flight Engineers David Saint-Jacques and Anne McClain and Commander Oleg Kononenko. New Expedition 59 Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin peers into the International Space Station moments after opening the hatch to the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft. NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch (out of frame) would soon fly into the orbital lab for the first time.