May 22, 2015

ESA's Danish astronaut, Andreas Mogensen, during a simulation in the full-scale mockup of a Soyuz capsule at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Russia, on 14 October 2014.
Andreas is assigned to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in September 2015 for a mission to the International Space Station. This 10-day mission will be Andreas's first flight into space and the first ever space mission by a Danish astronaut.

Image: Andreas Mogensen.