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Expedition 50 NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, left, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, center, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet talk to friends, family and mission managers, as backup crew members ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, back left, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, back center, and NASA astronaut Jack Fischer look on, 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.