Outside the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 50-51 crewmembers Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (left) and Peggy Whitson of NASA (center) take lessons from an unidentified Russian technician on the use of a satellite phone Nov. 2 during pre-launch training. Whitson, Pesquet and Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) 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