Expedition 58 Blessing

Expedition 58 Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), right, receives the traditional blessing from a Russian Orthodox priest at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to his launch on the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS), Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. He and fellow crewmates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Anne McClain of NASA, will spend the next six and a half months living and working aboard the ISS. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)