Alexander last check of Soyuz TMA-13M

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst in Soyuz TMA-13M, the spacecraft that carried him, Roscosmos commander Maxim Suraev and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman to the International Space Station on 28 May 2014.

Five days before launch, the Expedition 40/41 astronauts took one last look at their spacecraft in the scaffolding. The next day it was rolled out to the pad for the flight to space.