Luca at GCTC
These images were taken at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Russia in November 2012.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is training as part of the Soyuz TMA-07M back-up crew with NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin.
The TMA-07M prime crew will be launched in December 2012 to the International Space Station.
Luca's long-duration mission as prime-crew flight engineer to the Space Station is planned for 2013.
