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Astronauts training at the European Astronaut Center (EAC)

author: ESA/S.Corvaja/Novapix

reference: e-eur90-20011

Image Size 300 DPI: 29 * 19 cm

ESA astronauts Andre Kuipers (right) and Frank De Winne (left) use the Microgravity Science Glovebox training model at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany. Kuipers and De Winne visited EAC as part of their astronaut training ahead of De Winne's long-duration mission to the International Space Station scheduled for May to November 2009. Kuipers is assigned as back-up for the mission.

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2008 - ASTRONAUT - DE WINNE FRANK - EUROPE - EXPERIMENT - GERMANY - HUMAN - INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - ISS - KUIPERS ANDRE - SPACE - SPACE CENTER - SPACE STATION - TRAINING -