Dates and facts

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

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