ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and Cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin before the docking of ATV Albert Einstein on the International Space Station.
ATV Albert Einstein , Europe’s supply and support ferry, docked with the International Space Station on 15 June 2013, some ten days after its launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
ATV Albert Einstein brought 7 tonnes of supplies, propellants and experiments to the complex. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano oversees the unloading and cataloguing of the cargo of over 1400 individual items.