Expedition 51

Expedition 51 astronaut portrait with mission patch. From left: NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Nokolai Tikhonov, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky.

Thomas, Peggy and Oleg will transfer from Expedition 50 to Expedition 51, which is scheduled to begin with the departure of Soyuz spacecraft MS-02 in March 2017. Then, they will be joined by cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin, Nikolai Tikhonov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei later that month.