ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst enters ATV Georges Lemaitre for the first time on orbit after hatch opening.
Alexander wears a facemask to protect against inhaling any fine particles of dust or debris that might have shaken lose at launch. One of first things the crew does is install fans and air cleaners to run for several hours inside ATV.
The fifth and last Automated Transfer Vehicle docked with the International Space Station a day earlier on 12 August 2014.
ATV-5 delivers 6.6 tonnes of supplies to the ISS including food, water, fuel, clothes and experiment hardware.
More about ATV-5 in the blog: blogs.esa.int/atv
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ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, Expedition 40/41 flight engineer, participates in an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit fit check in the Space Station Airlock Test Article (SSATA) of the Crew Systems Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
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ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst inside ATV Georges Lemaitre for the first time on orbit after hatch opening.
Alexander wears a facemask to protect against inhaling any fine particles of dust or debris that might have shaken lose at launch. One of first things the crew does is install fans and air cleaners to run for several hours inside ATV.
The fifth and last Automated Transfer Vehicle docked with the International Space Station a day earlier on 12 August 2014.
ATV-5 delivers 6.6 tonnes of supplies to the ISS including food, water, fuel, clothes and experiment hardware.
More about ATV-5 in the blog: blogs.esa.int/atv
Credit: ESA/NASA
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The Expedition 38/39 backup crew members arrive at the Baikonur, Kazakhstan airport 26 October after flying from their training base at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (left), Russian cosmonaut Max Suraev (centre) and Reid Wiseman of NASA are understudies to the prime crew, Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin and Rick Mastracchio of NASA, who are scheduled to launch 7 November, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft from Baikonur to begin a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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A priest blesses the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launchpad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The launch of the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) with Expedition 40/41 ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, Russian cosmonaut Max Suraev and Reid Wiseman of NASA, is scheduled at 20:56 GMT (21:56 pm CEST) on 28 May.
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