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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 50-51 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures Nov. 1 in front of Lenin’s Statue before departing for their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. From left to right are backup crewmembers Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Jack Fischer of NASA and prime crewmembers Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency. Whitson, Novitskiy and Pesquet will launch Nov. 18, Baikonur time, on the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.