Expedition 59 crew members Christina Koch of NASA (front, left), Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos (front, center) and Nick Hague of NASA (front, right) sign a ceremonial book Feb. 21.
jsc2019e004424 (Feb. 21, 2019) — At the Gagarin Museum in the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 59 crew members Christina Koch of NASA (front, left), Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos (front, center) and Nick Hague of NASA (front, right) sign a ceremonial book Feb. 21 as part of their pre-launch activities as their backups in the back row, Drew Morgan of NASA, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency look on. 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. Credit: Irina Spektor/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center