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Expedition 59-60 Crew Conducts Traditional Ceremonies in Star City and Moscow, Russia Description: Expedition 59-60 Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and NASA Flight Engineers Nick Hague and Christina Koch and their backups, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos, Drew Morgan of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency visited the Gagarin Museum at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia Feb. 22 where they viewed historic space artifacts, then traveled to Red Square in Moscow for traditional ceremonies, including the laying of flowers at the Kremlin Wall where Russian space icons are interred. Ovchinin, Hague and Koch are scheduled to launch on March 14, U.S. time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.