Expedition 54 flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA waves to family and friends as he departs the Cosmonaut Hotel to suit-up for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for 2:21 a.m. Eastern Time (1:21 p.m. Baikonur time) on December 17 and will send Tingle, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on a five month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)