Samantha and Anton at Star City

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, after having successfully passed their examination training on the Don-Soyuz simulator, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, on 17 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.