ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet waves farewell to family and friends as he departs the Cosmonaut Hotel to suit-up for the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 17 November 2016.
Thomas will leave for the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome at 20:20 GMT (21:20 CET) with NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos).
Follow Thomas via thomaspesquet.esa.int and check out the mission blog for updates.