At Baikonur launch site RSC Energia specialists have completed operations to fill the crew transportation spacecraft Soyuz MS-12 with propellant components and compressed gases.

After the filling the spacecraft was brought into the spacecraft processing facility and installed into a jig for further pre-launch processing. According to the pre-launch processing schedule on March 4 the spacecraft will be mated to the transfer compartment.

The launch of the launch vehicle integrated with Soyuz MS-12 to the International Space Station is scheduled for March 14, 2019 from the Baikonur launch site.

The main crew of ISS-59/60 consists of a Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch. Their backups are a Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov, an ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, and a NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan.