Big centrifuge of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

Entrance to the gondola of the gig centrifuge at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, in Russia, in August 2011. Centrifuge is used for high-g training in preparations for spaceflight - also by André Kuipers, Dutch national and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to International Space Station (ISS Expeditions 30 and 31) for a long duration mission in 2011.