Thomas during simulation in the Soyuz

Control room of the full-scale mockup of the Soyuz capsule at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre during the training of ESA's French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, on 15 October 2014.

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.