Paolo Nespoli performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut Hotel, on 28 July 2017, prior to departing the hotel for launch in a Soyuz rocket, from Baikonour, in Kazakhstan.
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik and commander Sergey Ryazanskiy are set to launch for a four-and-a-half-month mission on the International Space Station.
Connect with Paolo via paolonespoli.esa.int and check out the mission blog for updates: blogs.esa.int/vita