Crowds begin to gather outside the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to Expedition 59 crewmembers Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA, and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos departing for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Hague, Koch, and Ovchinin 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.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71171454" class="extiw" title="d:Q71171454"><span title="American photographer">Bill Ingalls</span></a>
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Taken on 14 March 2019
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