Samantha during simulation in the Soyuz

Control room of the full-scale mockup of the Soyuz capsule at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre during the training of ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, on 14 October 2014.

Samantha Cristoforetti is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the ISS, scheduled for November 2014 and as part of Expedition 42/43.