Expedition 50 NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is seen donning her Russian sokol suit a few hours ahead of her launch on a Soyuz rocket with fellow crew mates, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Whitson, Novitskiy, and Pesquet launched in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft to the International Space Station to begin a six-month mission. GCTC/Irina Peshkova)

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