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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 50-51 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures Nov. 10 during their prelaunch activities. From left to right are prime crewmembers Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency and backup crewmembers Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Jack Fischer of NASA. Novitskiy, Whitson and Pesquet will launch Nov. 18, Baikonur time, on the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.