Expedition 50 NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson has her Russian sokol suit pressure tested a few hours ahead of her launch on a Soyuz rocket with fellow crew mates, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, 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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