Expedition 61 Preflight

spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates, lower left, and Expedition 61 astronaut Jessica Meir of NASA wait to have their Sokol suits pressure checked a few hours ahead of their launch on a Soyuz rocket with Expedition 61 cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Meir, Skripochka, and Almansoori will launch on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates, lower left, and Expedition 61 astronaut Jessica Meir of NASA wait to have their Sokol suits pressure checked a few hours ahead of their launch on a Soyuz rocket with Expedition 61 cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Meir, Skripochka, and Almansoori will launch on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)