Expedition 50-51 Prime and Backup Crew Members

jsc2016e180626 (Nov. 3, 2016) — Under leaden skies outside their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 50 prime and backup crew members pose for photos Nov. 3 during their traditional flag-raising ceremony. From left to right are prime crew members Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novistkiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency and backup crew members Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Jack Fischer of NASA. Whitson, Novitskiy 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