Soyuz MS-03 crew (L-R): Thomas Pesquet, Peggy Whitson, Oleg Novitskiy
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Soyuz MS-03, launched November 17, 2016, carried three members of Expedition 50 to the International Space Station. Its crew consisted of Commander Oleg Novitskiy (Roscosmos), Thomas Pesquet (ESA) and Peggy Whitson (NASA).
At age 56, Peggy Whitson became the oldest woman to go into space. Novitskiy and Pesquet returned to Earth in June 2017 after 196 days. Whitson returned in September aboard Soyuz MS-04.
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