Expedition 40/41 portrait

Expedition 40/41 crew pose for a selfie in Europe’s Cupola observatory in the International Space Station. From front to back: NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Roscosmos commander Maxim Suraev and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst.

The three astronauts will stay on the International Space Station, 400 km above Earth, for six months conducting science and maintaining humankind’s microgravity laboratory. Alexander will work on 100 experiments during his Blue Dot mission.