jsc2016e179941
At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 50-51 crewmember Peggy Whitson shares a moment with cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Nov. 1 before departing for the launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Whitson’s last flight to the International Space Station was with Malenchenko in 2007-2008 when she became the first female commander of the ISS during Expedition 16. Whitson, Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency will launch Nov. 18, Baikonur time, on the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the ISS. NASA/Stephanie Stoll
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