ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers during training at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany. Kuipers receives training from Manuela Aguzzi for the Neurospat experiment. Neurospat aims to study the processing pattern of the brain during cognitive tasks in microgravity. Kuipers is assigned as back-up to ESA astronaut Frank De Winne who is scheduled to visit the ISS between May and November 2009. Neurospat is one of the experiments scheduled for the mission.