Crew in front of the Soyuz TMA simulator

Paolo Nespoli, ESA's Italian astronaut (on left), will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) on 15 December for a long-duration mission with Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman (on right). Crew is photographed in front of the Soyuz TMA simulator at the Cagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Nespoli's flight is called MagISStra and he serve as flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and 27. This will be the third six-month mission by a European astronaut on the Station.