Alexander Gerst during a centrifuge training session

Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency seen on the screen above the console, of the Control room of the big centrifuge of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, in Russia, on 27 August 2013.

Alexander Gerst is flight engineer for Expedition 40/41, which will be launched to the Station in May 2014 on a long-duration mission to run science experiments and maintain humankind’s space base.