Expedition 50 Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos receives a traditional blessing from a Russian Orthodox Priest prior to departing the Cosmonaut Hotel, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Novitskiy, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the morning of November 18 (Kazakh time)(Nov. 17 Eastern.) All three will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex.
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NASA/Bill Ingalls
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Expedition 50 Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos receives a traditional blessing from a Russian Orthodox Priest prior to departing the Cosmonaut Hotel, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Novitskiy, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the morning of November 18 (Kazakh time)(Nov. 17 Eastern.) All three will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex.