Expedition 50-51 Practice Using a Satellite Phone

jsc2016e180335 (Nov. 2, 2016) — Outside the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, 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) practice with a satellite phone Nov. 2 during pre-launch training. 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