At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 50-51 crewmember Peggy Whitson of NASA flashes a smile before boarding a bus Nov. 1 to her and her crewmates to a plane to fly to their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Whitson, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency will launch Nov. 18, Baikonur time, on the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
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Star City Moscow
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NASA/Stephanie Stoll
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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 50-51 crewmember Peggy Whitson of NASA flashes a smile before boarding a bus Nov. 1 to her and her crewmates to a plane to fly to their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Whitson, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency will launch Nov. 18, Baikonur time, on the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.