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In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 50-51 backup crew member Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency climbs aboard the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft Nov.2 during pre-launch training. Nespoli, Jack Fischer of NASA and Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will back up the prime crew members, Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, who will launch Nov. 18, Baikonur time, for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.