Soyuz FG launched the crewed Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft from Baikonur carrying Oleg Novitskiy, Thomas Pesquet, and Peggy Whitson to the ISS for Expedition 50; Whitson, at 56, became the oldest woman to fly in space.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 48th
- of 60 Soyuz FG flights
- Date and time
- 17 November 2016, 20:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz FG
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2016-070
- Launches in 2016
- 71st of 85
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