The upper stage of a Soyuz booster rocket is raised to a vertical position

jsc2018e025516 - In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, engineers look on as the upper stage of a Soyuz booster rocket is raised to a vertical position March 14 after the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft was encapsulated into the booster. Expedition 55 crewmembers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold of NASA and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos will launch in the Soyuz March 21 for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.