At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 50-51 crew member Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (center) plants a tree bearing his name in traditional ceremonies Nov. 10 as his crewmates, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Peggy Whitson of NASA (right) look on.
jsc2016e181836 (Nov. 11, 2016) — At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 50-51 crew member Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (center) plants a tree bearing his name in traditional ceremonies Nov. 10 as his crewmates, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Peggy Whitson of NASA (right) look on. They will launch Nov. 18, Baikonur time, on the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Alexander Vysotsky