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Astronauts training in zero G

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ESA/ASI/Novapix

Reference

e-rus01-10802

Date

2009-03-22

The European astronauts Roberto Vittori, from Italy, and Frank de Winne, from Belgium, during a Zero G flight, on board the Russian Illouchine plane, in February 2002 for the Marco Polo mission.
The Marco Polo mission (25 April - 5 May 2002) sees ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori as the first ESA astronaut of Italian nationality to reach the International Space Station on board a Russian spacecraft. Once there, he experienced life and worked on the largest habitable man-made structure in space.