Expedition 60 Preflight Expedition 60 Soyuz flight engineer Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) is blessed by a Russian Orthodox Priest in the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to departing for launch on a Soyuz rocket with fellow crewmates Drew Morgan of NASA and Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos, Saturday, July 20, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Skvortsov, Morgan, and Parmitano launched at 12:28 Eastern time (9:28 Baikonur time) to begin their mission to the International Space Station.

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