At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 59 crew member Christina Koch of NASA is seen in the hatchway of a Russian segment simulator Feb. 19 during the first of two days of final pre-launch qualification exams. Koch, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA will launch March 14, U.S. time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.
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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 59 crew member Christina Koch of NASA is seen in the hatchway of a Russian segment simulator Feb. 19 during the first of two days of final pre-launch qualification exams. Koch, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA will launch March 14, U.S. time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.