The Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque is about to travel to the International Space Station. He will fly onboard a tiny Russian Soyuz capsule with two other crew members - a Russian and the British-born NASA astronaut Michael Foale.Sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, the mission has been named ?Cervantesê after the famous author of Don Quixote.

ESA: Cervantes mission: A-roll script
October 2003
The Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque is about to travel to the International Space Station. He will fly onboard a tiny Russian Soyuz capsule with two other crew members - a Russian and the British-born NASA astronaut Michael Foale.
Sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, the mission has been named ÔCervantesÕ after the famous author of Don Quixote.
SOT Pedro Duque, ESA astronaut: [Spanish]
ÒI feel very proud, yes, if people see this as a representation of Spain in space. IÕm going to do the job the best I can. Of course the most important thing of all is to feel proud afterwards, once the job is done.Ó
Pedro has flown in orbit once before. He was part of a 1988 NASA shuttle crew, along with Apollo astronaut John Glenn. For Cervantes, he has spent many months learning a new set of skills for a very different mission.
After being launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz capsule will take only ten min