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At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 50-51 backup crewmembers Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Jack Fischer of NASA (right) share a light-hearted moment as they review flight plans Nov. 10 as part of preflight training. They are backups to the prime crewmembers, Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, who will launch Nov. 18, Baikonur time, on the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.