Prime crewmember Peggy Whitson pose for a wintry picture before flying to their launch site in Baikonur Kazakhstan.

Outside their residence cottages at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 50-51 prime crewmember Peggy Whitson of NASA (right) and her backup, NASA’s Jack Fischer (left) pose for a wintry picture Nov. 1 before flying to their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Whitson, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (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 International Space Station.

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