Oleg Novitskiy poses for a picture with his daughter Russia before departing for his launch site in Baikonur Kazakhstan.

Expedition 50-51 crewmember Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) poses for a picture Nov. 1 with his daughter at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia before departing for his launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Looking on is crewmember Peggy Whitson of NASA. Novitskiy, Whitson 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 International Space Station.

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