ISS Expedition 51 patch, 2017

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet (FR) is assigned to fly on the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft to the International Space Station, scheduled for November 2016 and as part of Expedition 50/51, with cosmonaut Oleg Novitski and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson. Expedition 51 begins with the undocking of Soyuz MS-02 in March 2017. Two new crew members will arrive shortly thereafter on Soyuz MS-04: cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Jack Fischer.