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eHam.net News — Two Radio Amateurs Set to Join ISS Crew: Astronauts Peggy Whitson,
KC5ZTD, and Thomas Pesquet, KG5FYG, and Cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy head
into space on November 17 for a 6-month stay aboard the International
Space Station. It will take the Expedition 50/51 crew members 2 days to
reach the ISS in their Soyuz vehicle. Welcoming the new crew increment
will be Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough, KE5HOD, and crew
members Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko, who have been aboard the
complex since October. Whitson will become the first woman to command
the space station twice. Her first tenure as commander was in 2007,
when she became the first woman to hold this post.

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