HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT
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DELTA MISSION
ANDRE KUIPERS

ESA astronaut : Andre Kuipers
Kuipers, Pedalka and Fincke during photo shoot. 10.00.4010.01.05 ESA-astronaut Andre Kuipers will be the second Dutchman to travel to space, and the first one to visit the International Space Station. On the 19th of April, he will fly to the ISS for the eleven-day Delta-mission. He will be accompanied by Russian cosmonaut Gennadi Padalka and the American NASA-astronaut Mike Fincke. During a busy week of training at NASA's Johnson Space Flight Centre in Houston, they found time to do a quick photo shoot. But as Andre Kuipers is flying to the ISS with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, he has spent most of his training in Star City, near Moscow.
Lessons in Russian 10.01.13 The first thing all -astronauts that come here have to learn, is Russian. They receive an intensive and personalised language course, to get them up to speed as soon as possible. A very difficult language indeed, but on board a Russian vehicle, you can't survive without it.
Training inside Soyuz 10.01.35 The Soyuz