Technicians check of the alignment of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft

jsc2019e012765 (March 6, 2019) --- In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, technicians check of the alignment of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft (right) with its Soyuz booster’s nose fairing (left) March 6 prior to its encapsulation into the Soyuz booster rocket. Expedition 59 crew members Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will launch on 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.