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At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 59 crew member Christina Koch of NASA poses for pictures March 10 in front of a display housing memorabilia from the flight of the first woman to fly in space, Valentina Tereshkova, whose historic mission took place in June 1963. Koch, Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos 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.