Pedro Duque Stock Shots

Material on the Spanish ESA astronaut Pedro Duque who is scheduled to fly in late October 1998 on the STS-95 mission. Pedro's first mission, this will be the 25th flight of Space Shuttle Discovery and the 94th mission flown since the start of the Space Shuttle programme in April 1981.
The flight crew will include John Glenn, the US Senator who was the first American in orbit in 1962.

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10:00:00:00 opening title
10:00:37:00 caption: Training for EUROMIR 94 mission at Star City
10:00:38:00 training in the gym at Star City, near Moscow.
10:00:46:00 Duque on bicycle
10:00:53:00 Ulf Merbold (ESA Astronaut) on rowing machine
10:01:04:00 Thomas Reiter (ESA Astronaut) on bicycle
10:01:14:00 Duque on weights
10:01:53:00 Duque in the pool
10:02:09:00 eating at table, also present foreground Christer Fuglesang (opposite and left to right), Ulf Merbold, Thomas Reiter
10:03:03:00 Duque and Merbold have a training session in one of the space simulators
10:03:45:00 the instructor monitors activities from the control room
10:04:27:00 caption: Departure from Star City to the Baikonur Cosmodrome
10:04:28:00 arrival of families for photographs and to send crew on their way to the Baikonur Cosmodrome for the launch
10:04:44:00 group photograph
10:05:12:00 pre-launch interview, crew behind glass isolation screen
10:05:26:00 caption: Final stages of training and inspection