Samantha and Anton at Star City

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, during training, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, on 15 October 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.