Expedition 59 Preflight

Expedition 59 crewmembers Christina Koch of NASA, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA, talk with family and mission management prior to their launch, 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 crewmembers Christina Koch of NASA, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA, talk with family and mission management prior to their launch, 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)