Expedition 59 crew member Nick Hague prepares to depart Star City, Russia

jsc2019e007196 (Feb. 26, 2019) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 59 crew member Nick Hague of NASA prepares to depart Feb. 26 for his launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. Hague, Christina Koch of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos 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.