Thomas Pesquet during survival training

ESA's French astronaut Thomas Pesquet during a water survival training session near Star City, Russia, on 25 June 2014.

Survival training is an important part of all Soyuz mission training. When a Soyuz spacecraft returns to Earth there is always the possibility that it could land in water.

Thomas Pesquet has been assigned to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2016 for a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.