Expedition 50-51 Arrives at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Launch Site

jsc2016e179933 (Nov. 1, 2016) — The Expedition 50-51 crew arrives at the launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan Nov. 1 after a flight from their training base in Star City, Russia. From left to right are Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency. The three crew members 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