Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (right), Russian cosmonaut Max Suraev and Reid Wiseman of NASA (left) ready for a Soyuz TMA spacecraft training session at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia, on 16 August 2013.
Alexander Gerst is flight engineer for Expedition 40/41, which will be launched to the Station in May 2014 on a long-duration mission to run science experiments and maintain humankind’s space base.