
At the Gagarin Museum in the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 59 crewmember Christina Koch of NASA (front, left) signs a ceremonial book Feb. 21 as part of the crew’s pre-launch activities as her crewmates, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos (center) and Nick Hague of NASA (right) look on. In the back row are their backups, Drew Morgan of NASA, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency. Koch, Hague and Ovchinin will launch March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Irina Spektor/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
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