Expedition 50 NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson waves farewell to friends and family as she and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos depart building 254 a few hours ahead of their launch, 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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NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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Expedition 50 NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson waves farewell to friends and family as she and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos depart building 254 a few hours ahead of their launch, 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.