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In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 59 backup crew members Drew Morgan of NASA (left), Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos (center) and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (right) pose for pictures in front of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft March 10 during final pre-launch inspections. They are the backups to the prime crew members, Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, who will launch March 14, U.S. time, in the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.