Expedition 55 prime and backup crew members attend a traditional flag raising ceremony

jsc2018e024045 - At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 55 prime and backup crewmembers attend a traditional flag raising ceremony March 6. From the second from the left are backup crewmembers Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and prime crewmembers Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold of NASA. Feustel, Arnold and Artemyev will launch March 21 on the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.