From left to right : NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and André Kuipers, ESA astronaut.
André is scheduled to be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, on a Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft on 21 December 2011. He will be flight engineer for Expeditions 30 and 31. Travelling together with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and NASA astronaut Don Pettit, they will remain in space for nearly five months as part of the international crew of six aboard the ISS.
The crew is behind a glass during the meeting because of medical quarantine.