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Thomas Pesquet during the pre-launch press conference with prime and backup crewmembers, on 16 November 2016, in Kazakhstan.
Prime crewmembers are Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency and backup crewmembers are Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Jack Fischer of NASA.
Thomas Pesquet, Peggy Whitson and Oleg Novitsky will be launched 17 November for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
Follow Thomas via thomaspesquet.esa.int and check out the mission blog for updates.