Expedition 50 Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, left, views a photo on backup crew member Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin's phone after donning his Russian sokol suit for his launch on a Soyuz rocket with fellow crew mates, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, 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.

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