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Expedition 50 prime and backup crews are seen in quarantine behind glass during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, from left, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, backup crew members ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, and NASA astronaut Jack Fischer, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Whitson, Novitskiy, and Pesquet will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the morning of November 18 (Kazakh time.) All three will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex.