Expedition 50-51 Crew Aboard a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Aircraft
jsc2016e179951 (Nov. 1, 2016) — Aboard a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft, Expedition 50-51 crew members Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (left), Peggy Whitson of NASA (center) and Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, right) affix a crew insignia sticker to the wall of the plane during their flight Nov. 1 to their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. 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: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center