ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut Hotel, prior to departing the hotel for launch in a Soyuz rocket, from Baikonour, in Kazakhstan, on 17 November 2016.
Thomas will leave for the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome at 20:20 GMT (21:20 CET) with NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos).
Follow Thomas via thomaspesquet.esa.int and check out the mission blog for updates.