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At the launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 50-51 backup crewmembers Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (left), Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Jack Fischer of NASA (right) smile as they are greeted Nov. 1 upon their arrival following a flight from their training base in Star City, Russia. They are the backups to Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, who will launch Nov. 18, Baikonur time, on the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Alexander Vysotsky