NASA’s Expedition 59 astronauts Christina Koch (left) and Nick Hague (right) study a framed drawing of a Soyuz rocket Feb. 21 that Korolev himself drew decades ago.
jsc2019e004429 (Feb. 21, 2019) — At the Korolev Library in Moscow named after the Russian space designer, Sergei Korolev, NASA’s Expedition 59 astronauts Christina Koch (left) and Nick Hague (right) study a framed drawing of a Soyuz rocket Feb. 21 that Korolev himself drew decades ago. Koch, Hague and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos 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. Credit: Andrey Shelepin/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center