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At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 59 backup and prime crew members pose for pictures March 10 outside the cottage that Yuri Gagarin slept in the night before his historic mission April 12, 1961 to become the first human to fly in space. From left to right are the backup crew members, Drew Morgan of NASA, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, and the prime crew members, Christina Koch of NASA, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA, 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.