ESA astronauts Luca Parmitano (center) and Thomas Pesquet (left) training together for INC-49/INC-50 ISS EVA Maintenance run, at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA’s Johnson Space Center, on 16 January 2015.
Thomas Pesquet has been assigned to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2016 for a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.