- About PromISSe
- The PromISSe mission
- PromISSe mission key data
- André's tasks in space
- André's spaceflight experience
- André in training
- Science aboard
- Traffic at the Station
- Facts about the Soyuz
- About the PromISSe mission name and logo
- Support from the ground
- Way back to Earth
- Educational projects
- Spaceship Earth
- Mission-X: Train Like an Astronaut
- PromISSe educational experiments
- Meet the crew
- André Kuipers
- Oleg Kononenko
- Don Pettit
- Behind the scenes
- Expedition 30
- Expedition 31
- Crew schedule
- Downloads
- PromISSe Information Kit, English (pdf, low)
- PromISSe Information Kit, English (pdf, high-resolution)
- PromISSe Information Kit, Dutch (pdf, low)
- PromISSe Information Kit, Dutch (pdf, high-resolution)
- Multimedia
- ESA Multimedia gallery
- ESA Video archive
- PromISSe at ESA's Webstreaming network
-
ESA on YouTube
minigallery: PromISSe mission: launch preparations in Baikonur
Launch of the Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft with ESA's André Kuipers with Don Pettit from NASA and Oleg Kononenko from Russia is scheduled for 21 December 2011. The preparations for the liftoff are going ahead at the Baikonur cosmodrome following the traditions that have been part of every human space mission from Baikonur for decades, with roots going back to Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering 1961 flight.
These photos show the crew, busy with the final preparations for their mission.
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