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At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 59 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures Feb. 27 as part of their pre-launch training. In the front row are the prime crew members, Christina Koch of NASA, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA. In the back row are their backups, Drew Morgan of NASA, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency. Koch, Hague and Ovchinin will launch March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.