ESA astronaut Frank De Winne to spend six months on the ISS in 2009

ESA PR 09-2008. With the Columbus mission well under way, the space station programme has assigned crews for the next flight opportunities. Belgian ESA astronaut Frank De Winne joins Expedition 19 and will spend six months on the ISS in 2009. In May 2009, he will fly together with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM9D8QR4CF_index_0.html

Time: 11. Feb. 2008

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