Expedition 50 Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos is seen donning his Russian sokol suit a few hours ahead of his launch on a Soyuz rocket with fellow crew mates, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, 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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