Expedition 50 crewmembers ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, left, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, center, and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson pose for a group photograph with mission managers in front of the Soyuz rocket at the launch pad, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Whitson, Novitskiy, and Pesquet will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex.

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