Expedition 59 astronaut Nick Hague of NASA, waves farewell to family and friends as he, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, and Christina Koch of NASA head to the launch pad, 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/Victor Zelentsov)