Expedition 55 Preflight

Expedition 55 flight engineer Ricky Arnold of NASA, Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, and flight engineer Drew Feustel of NASA talk to Roscosmos and NASA management after having their Russian Sokol suits pressure checked ahead of their launch on a Soyuz rocket, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome  Kazakhstan. Arnold, Artemyev, and Feustel launched aboard the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft at 1:44 p.m. Eastern time (11:44 p.m. Baikonur time) on March 21 to begin their journey to the International Space Station.  Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)

Expedition 55 flight engineer Ricky Arnold of NASA, Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, and flight engineer Drew Feustel of NASA talk to Roscosmos and NASA management after having their Russian Sokol suits pressure checked ahead of their launch on a Soyuz rocket, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Kazakhstan. Arnold, Artemyev, and Feustel launched aboard the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft at 1:44 p.m. Eastern time (11:44 p.m. Baikonur time) on March 21 to begin their journey to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)