Thomas training
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is the last of ESA's class of 2009 astronauts to fly to the International Space Station. He will be leaving our planet for six months November 2016 as a flight engineer for Expeditions 50 and 51, returning in May 2017.
These images show Thomas training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Russia.
Follow Thomas as he prepares for his flight via thomaspesquet.esa.int
