Expedition 59 State Commission

Expedition 59 crewmembers Christina Koch of NASA, left, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA, along with backup crewmembers Drew Morgan of NASA, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos, and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, right, are seen during the State Commission meeting to approve the crew's Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Hague, Koch, and Ovchinin will launch 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. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 59 crewmembers Christina Koch of NASA, left, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA, along with backup crewmembers Drew Morgan of NASA, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos, and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, right, are seen during the State Commission meeting to approve the crew's Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Hague, Koch, and Ovchinin will launch 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. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Photographer NASA/Bill Ingalls
Alexander SkvortsovAlexey OvchininBaikonurChristina KochCosmonaut HotelDrew MorganESA European Space Agency Expedition 59Expedition 59 PreflightKazakhstanLuca ParmitanoNick HagueRoscosmosState Commission