Expedition 40/41 crew members greeting audience at the launch pad

Expedition 40/41 flight engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, Soyuz commander Max Suraev of…

Alexander Gerst greeting audience at the launch pad

Expedition 40/41 flight engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency greeting audience at the launch…

Expedition 40/41 crew members greeting audience at the launch pad

Expedition 40/41 flight engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, Soyuz commander Max Suraev of…

Expedition 40/41 crew members and dignitaries at the launch pad

Expedition 40/41 flight engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, Soyuz commander Max Suraev of…

Liftoff of Soyuz TMA-13M on 28 May 2014

On Wednesday 28 May 2014, Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft lifted off from the Russian Baikonour cosmodrome in…

Sokol suit pressure testing

Expedition 40/41 flight engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency during Sokol suit pressure testing,…

Sentinel-2A satellite in the cleanroom

The Sentinel-2 satellite at Airbus Defence and Space in Germany. This second satellite for Europe’s Copernicus…

Expedition 40/41 crew members shortly after leaving the Cosmonaut Hotel

Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (left), Soyuz Commander Max Suraev…

Aral Sea

Central Asia’s receding Aral Sea, viewed by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite, which is about to take up…

Sentinel-1A scan

Sentinel-1A scan from 24 May 2014 over parts of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. The…