A Soyuz-FG rocket has successfully launched the manned Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft with three Expedition 50 crew members onboard.
<p>Russian cosmonaut and Soyuz commander Oleg Novitskiy, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson lifted off at 20:20 UTC, November 17th 2016 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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The crew will dock to the International Space Station on Saturday, November 19th 2016 at 22:01 UTC.
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