Life raft

The 26 September test of Galileo's Search and Rescue system was dubbed ‘Operation Shark Bait’. The volunteer was TV producer and ESA SocialSpace fan  Tara Foster – followable on Twitter as ‘@Taraaustralis’ – sitting inside her inflatable raft: “You can feel the waves under you just like sitting in a waterbed, and you’re wondering how long you’ve been out there because you don’t know.”