Thomas Pesquet participates in a training session

European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet participates in an advanced Resistive Exercise Device (aRED) training session in the Columbia Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, on 16 September 2014.

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.