Expedition 59 Preflight

Expedition 59 cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, left, and Christina Koch of NASA smile and wave to family while getting their Sokol suit pressure checked prior to launch on a Soyuz rocket with Nick Hague 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, left, and Christina Koch of NASA smile and wave to family while getting their Sokol suit pressure checked prior to launch on a Soyuz rocket with Nick Hague 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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