KAZAKHSTAN–(ENEWSPF)–November 14, 2016. The moon, or supermoon, is seen rising behind the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan, Monday, November 14, 2016.
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station at 3:20 p.m. EST, Nov. 17 (2:20 a.m., Nov. 18, Kazakh time). All three will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex.
A supermoon occurs when the moon’s orbit is closest (perigee) to Earth.
Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Source: http://nasa.gov
