Going for rendezvous!

Paolo Nespoli photographed inside the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft before docking to the International Space Station on 17 December.

ESA's Italian astronaut was launched to space with Catherine Coleman and Dmitri Kondratyev from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 15 December at 20:09 CET. Paolo’s MagISStra mission will be Europe’s third long-duration mission on the ISS. Between December 2010 and June 2011 he will be part of the ISS crew as a flight engineer.