In 2009 ESA astronaut Frank de Winne spent six months on the International Space Station as commander of five fellow astronauts. Running experiments and maintaining the outpost Frank oversaw the first docking of the Japanese HTV supply spacecraft and assisted in ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang’s spacewalk.

This video gives an overview of his mission in under half an hour.

For more information about his mission go to http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/OasISS_Mission