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Mission
Expeditions 50/51 to the International Space Station
Launch site
Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Spacecraft
Soyuz MS-03
Launch
International Space Station Soyuz launch 49S
Quarantine period before launch
10–17 November 2016
Launch date
17 November 2016 at 20:20 GMT
Launcher
Soyuz-FG
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Docking
Six hours after launch
Hatch opening
90 minutes after docking
Landing
2 June 2017
Mission duration
6 months
Crew
Thomas Pesquet, ESA
Oleg Novitsky, Roscosmos
Peggy Whitson, NASA
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