From left to right: ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov during a water survival training session near Star City, Russia, on 25 June 2014.
Survival training is an important part of all Soyuz mission training. When a Soyuz spacecraft returns to Earth there is always the possibility that it could land in water.
Andreas Mogensen has been assigned to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in September 2015 for a mission to the International Space Station. This 10-day mission will be Andreas’s first flight into space and the first ever space mission by a Danish astronaut.
Thomas Pesquet has been assigned to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2016 for a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.