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25 August 2011
| André Kuipers cycling at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, in Russia, in August 2011. Bike is a practical way to move around in Star City. Kuipers, Dutch national and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station (ISS Expeditions 30 and 31) for a long-duration mission in 2011.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011 | |  |  | |
| | | | | André Kuipers with his crewmates Don Pettit (left) and Oleg Kononeko (middle) during a training session at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, in Russia, in August 2011. Kuipers, Dutch national and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station (ISS Expeditions 30 and 31) for a long-duration mission in 2011.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011 | | | | |
| | | | | André Kuipers during a Soyuz TMA spacecraft training session at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, in Russia, in August 2011.
Each crew members needs to be capable of reacting correctly and expeditiously to emergency situations. These situations are rehearsed over and over again during the training and include crew responses to fire, depressurisation and to toxic atmosphere.
Kuipers, Dutch national and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station (ISS Expeditions 30 and 31) for a long-duration mission in 2011.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011 | | | | |
| | | | | André Kuipers during a Soyuz TMA spacecraft training session at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), in Russia, in August 2011. Kuipers, Dutch national and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station (ISS Expeditions 30 and 31) for a long-duration mission in 2011.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011 | | | | |
| | | | | André Kuipers with his crewmates Don Pettit and Oleg Kononeko during a training session in the ISS simulator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), in Russia, in August 2011. Kuipers, Dutch national and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station (ISS Expeditions 30 and 31) for a long-duration mission in 2011.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011 | | | | |
| | | | | André Kuipers meeting visitors at the centrifuge building at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, in Russia, during a training session in August 2011. Kuipers, Dutch national and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station (ISS Expeditions 30 and 31) for a long-duration mission in 2011.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011 | | | | |
| | | | | André Kuipers in a centrifuge during a training session at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), in Russia, in August 2011. Kuipers, Dutch national and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station (ISS Expeditions 30 and 31) for a long-duration mission in 2011.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011 | | | | |
| | | | | André Kuipers inside a centrifuge during a training session at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, in Russia, in August 2011. Kuipers, Dutch national and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station (ISS Expeditions 30 and 31) for a long-duration mission in 2011.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011 | | | | |
| | | | | André Kuipers (middle) and Oleg Kononenko (right) during a training session in the full-size ATV simulator at the European Astronaut Centre, in Cologne, Germany, 5 July 2011. Kuipers, Dutch national and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station for a long-duration mission in 2011.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011 | | | | |
| | | | | André Kuipers and Oleg Kononenko during a training session in the full-size ATV simulator at the European Astronaut Centre, in Cologne, Germany, 5 July 2011. Kuipers, Dutch national and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station for a long-duration mission in 2011.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011 | | | | |
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