The upper stage of the Soyuz booster rocket

jsc2019e012772 (March 6, 2019) --- In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the upper stage of the Soyuz booster rocket is rotated back to a vertical position March 6 after the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft was encapsulated into the booster’s nose fairing. Expedition 59 crew members Nick Hague and 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 for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.