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At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 59 prime and backup crew members conduct the traditional raising of the flags of Russia, the U.S. and Kazakhstan Feb. 28 as part of their pre-launch training. From left to right raising the Russian flag are Alexander Skvortsov and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, raising the U.S. flag are Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA and raising the Kazakh flag are Drew Morgan of NASA 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.