Test director Hervé Stevenin

Test director Hervé Stevenin supervises ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet during spacewalk training at ESAs Neutral Buoyancy Facility in the European Astronaut Centre, Cologne, Germany, 16 June 2010.

This course teaches ESA astronauts basic spacewalk concepts and skills, such as tethering to the Station, the use of special tools, communicating with crewmates and control rooms, and how to keep full situational awareness in a complex and challenging environment.