Expedition 59 Preflight

Expedition 59 cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos has his Sokol suit pressure checked a few hours ahead of his launch on a Soyuz rocket with Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA, Thursday, March 14, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 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/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 59 cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos has his Sokol suit pressure checked a few hours ahead of his launch on a Soyuz rocket with Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA, Thursday, March 14, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 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/Bill Ingalls)

Photographer NASA/Bill Ingalls
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