Chris Cassidy of NASA waters a tree bearing his name in a traditional pre-launch activity

jsc2020e016974 (April 1, 2020) - At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 63 crewmember Chris Cassidy of NASA waters a tree bearing his name April 1 in a traditional pre-launch activity. Cassidy and Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos will launch April 9 on the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.