Workers monitor the Soyuz MS-03 rocket and spacecraft as they wait for the Expedition 50 crew to arrive, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, (Kazakh time) (Nov 17 Eastern time). NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex.

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