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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 59 backup crewmember Drew Morgan of NASA tests his vestibular system in a rotating chair March 7 as part of his pre-launch activities. Morgan, Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos are the backups to the prime crewmembers, Christina Koch of NASA, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA, who will launch 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...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.