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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 59 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures March 7 as part of their pre-launch activities. From left to right are the prime crewmembers, Nick Hague of NASA, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Christina Koch of NASA and the backup crewmembers, 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, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.