Expedition 50 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has his Russian sokol suit pressure tested a few hours ahead of his launch on a Soyuz rocket with fellow crew mates, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, and, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Whitson, Novitskiy, and Pesquet launched in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft to the International Space Station to begin a six-month mission.
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Expedition 50 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has his Russian sokol suit pressure tested a few hours ahead of his launch on a Soyuz rocket with fellow crew mates, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, and, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Whitson, Novitskiy, and Pesquet launched in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft to the International Space Station to begin a six-month mission.