Thomas Pesquet during training for INC-49/INC-50 ISS EVA Maintenance run

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet during the training for INC-49/INC-50 ISS EVA Maintenance run, at the Neutral  Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center, on 16 January 2015.

Thomas Pesquet has been assigned to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2016 for a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.