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 | Group photo - Expedition 17 Prime Crew with EAC ATV Instructor Team. Back row, left to right: Richard Moss, Lionel Ferra, Stephane Ghiste. Front row, left to right: Liliana Ravagnolo, Oleg Kononenko, Sergei Volkov, Oleg Polovnikov
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 | P. Duque and P. Nespoli training, during the first international astronaut class. EAC trains its first international astronauts class. After several years of planning and preparation, ESA's ISS training programme has become operational. Between 26 August and 6 September, the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) near Cologne gave the first ESA advanced training course for an international ISS astronaut class.
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