Expedition 50-51 crew prepares for launch in Kazakhstan

ASTANA. KAZINFORM At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 50-51 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA) participated in a variety of activities Nov. 1-10 as they prepared for the launch of Novitskiy, Whitson and Pesquet Nov. 18, Kazakh time, on the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.