Soyuz food rations

Each one of these packages contains the food for one person for one day. There are a total of 16 packages that cover 4.2 days. The packages marked КК are for the Spacecraft Commander (in the centre seat), the ones marked БИ are for the Board Engineer (in the left seat) and the ones marked КИ are for the Research Cosmonaut (in the right seat). The dimensions of each package are approximately 20x20x12cm and mainly contain cans of meat or fish, dried fruits and biscuits. Baikonur Cosmodrome, 4 December 2010.

Paolo Nespoli, ESA's Italian astronaut, will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) on 15 December for a long-duration mission called MagISStra and serve as flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and 27. This will be the third six-month mission by a European astronaut on the Station.