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At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 59 prime and backup crew members attend traditional flag-raising ceremonies Feb. 28 as part of their pre-launch training. From left to right are the prime crew members, Nick Hague of NASA, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Christina Koch of NASA and their backups, Drew Morgan of NASA, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency. Hague, Ovchinin and Koch will launch March 14, U.S. time, in the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.