The first view out of the Soyuz window

Paolo Nespoli's first view out of the Soyuz TMA-20 window after being launched with Cady 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.