Alexander ready for training with Orlan spacesuit

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is ready for training with the Orlan spacesuit at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia, on 17 April 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.