Astronaut training at EAC

ESA astronaut Frank De Winne is currently in training ahead of his long-duration mission to the International Space Station scheduled for May to November 2009. De Winne was recently at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, to receive training in some of the European experiments he will perform during his stay on the Space Station. He was accompanied at EAC by his ESA astronaut colleague André Kuipers who is assigned as his back-up for the mission.

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Caption: Frank De Winne and Andre Kuipers receive instruction in use of the Flywheel Exercise Device Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja ID number: SEMSGX4N0MF HI-RES JPEG size: 1400 kb Related Images: Astronauts OasISS (Astronaut De Winne)

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ESA astronauts Frank De Winne (centre) and Andre Kuipers (right) are instructed how to perform the checkout of the Flywheel Exercise Device (instructor: Frank Salmen) during astronaut training at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany. De Winne is scheduled to take part in a long-duration mission to the ISS between May and November 2009. Kuipers is assigned as his back-up. The Flywheel Exercise Device was launched to the ISS in February 2008 in order to serve human physiology investigations in the area of countermeasures and potentially become a contingency exercise device for ISS astronauts.

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