Expedition 59 Preflight

Expedition 59 cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, reclined left, Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA, right, have their Sokol suits pressure checked prior to launch on a Soyuz rocket, 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/GCTC/Irina Spector)

Expedition 59 cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, reclined left, Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA, right, have their Sokol suits pressure checked prior to launch on a Soyuz rocket, 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/GCTC/Irina Spector)

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