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In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 50-51 backup crew member Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) climbs aboard the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft Nov. 2 during pre-launch training. Yurchikhin, Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency and Jack Fischer of NASA will back up the prime crew members, Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, who will launch Nov. 18, Baikonur time, for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.