The Moon, a supermoon, rising behind the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan, November 14, 2016. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the morning of November 18 (Kazakh time.) All three will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex. A supermoon occurs when the moon's orbit is closest (perigee) to Earth. A unique, digitally optimised version of a NASA image by senior NASA photographer Bill Ingalls / credit NASA

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Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome
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