European prepares to command ISS

[Rick]

Next week, European astronaut Frank De Winne will leave Russia's cosmonaut training centre outside of Moscow and fly to neighbouring Kazakhstan, where a Soyuz rocket is being prepared to carry him and two crewmates to the International Space Station.

They will be the 20th crew to staff the station, but this time the current residents are not coming right home.

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