Expedition 59 astronaut Christina Koch of NASA, left, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, center, and Nick Hague of NASA are seen as they depart the Cosmonaut Hotel ahead of their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Hague, Koch, and Ovchinin launched 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/Victor Zelentsov)