Expedition 59 astronaut Nick Hague of NASA, left, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, center, and Christina Koch of NASA wave farewell to friends and family as they depart the Cosmonaut Hotel ahead of their launch on a Soyuz rocket, Thursday, March 14, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Hague, Koch, and Ovchinin launched 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/GCTC/Irina Spector)