Six months in space for Andre Kuipers

29 JUN. 2012 6051

On 1 July 2012 the ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers will return to Earth and land in the steppes of Kazakhstan onboard a Soyuz capsule.

This will mark the end of "PromISSe", the 4th ESA long duration mission, and more than six months stay for the Dutch astronaut on the International Space Station.

This video recalls the different aspects of this mission with new images of the astronauts working in space.

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