Published on February 10, 2017
After launching Nov. 18, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft from 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 arrived at the International Space Station Nov. 19 and were welcomed aboard the orbital complex by station Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Flight Engineers Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos.