Expedition 50 NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, left, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos are seen after donning their Russian sokol suits a few hours ahead of their launch on a Soyuz rocket with fellow crew mate, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, 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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Expedition 50 NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, left, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos are seen after donning their Russian sokol suits a few hours ahead of their launch on a Soyuz rocket with fellow crew mate, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, 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.