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ESA's 4th long duration flight

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Dutch ESA astronaut André Kuipers is about to make his second and ESA's fourth long-duration mission to the International Space Station.

Lifting off in a Soyuz module from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, he'll be spending six months in orbit as flight engineer.

His roles onboard include performing an intensive series of microgravity experiments and overseeing the docking of ESA's ATV, or Automated Transfer Vehicle, to the station.

More backgroud information can be found on: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/PromISSe/index.html

  • ESA
  • Documentary
  • Human Spaceflight
  • ATV PromISSe Soyuz
  • André Kuipers
  • ATV Biolab Columbus Training Module EAC ISS Soyuz capsule Soyuz TMA
  • ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC) ATV-CC Main Control Room EAC ESA Headquarters (ESA HQ) Germany Toulouse Space Centre (CST) Tsukuba Space Center
  • Astronauts working Controlling Docking Exercising Explaining introducing Mission planning Monitoring Studying Testing Training Working in space Working on the ISS
  • Astronauts Astronauts training Briefing Control room EADS Astrium Earth views (taken by satellites ) Engineers Glove box Instruments onboard ISS module Solar panels Training module
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