At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 50-51 crew member Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency plants a tree bearing his name in traditional ceremonies Nov. 10 as his crewmates, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Peggy Whitson of NASA look on.
jsc2016e181837 (Nov. 11, 2016) — At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 50-51 crew member Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (second from left) plants a tree bearing his name in traditional ceremonies Nov. 10 as his crewmates, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, far left) and Peggy Whitson of NASA (third from left) look on. Joining them on the right are backup crewmembers Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Jack Fischer of NASA. Novitskiy, Whitson and Pesquet 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