Samantha using the virtual reality hardware at JSC

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti using the virtual reality hardware to rehearse some of her duties for a mission to the International Space Station, at NASA's Johnson Space Center, on 30 June 2014.

Samantha Cristoforetti is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the ISS, scheduled for November 2014 and as part of Expedition 42/43.