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In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a technician watches over the upper stage of the Soyuz booster (foreground) and the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft (background) March 6 prior to the spacecraft’s encapsulation into the nose fairing of the booster rocket. Expedition 59 crew members Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will launch on 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.