ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet training for his mission to the International Space Station set to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2016.

All astronauts travel the world learning the skills needed to pilot spacecraft, robotic arms, survive a winter landing and venture outside on spacewalks.

These videos gives an overview of his eclectic five-year training, underwater, underground and floating in weightlessness on parabolic flights.