ESA astronauts training for International Space Station<br /><br />ESA's human spaceflight programme is gaining experience with long-duration missions on the International Space Station.<br /><br />A new generation of European astronauts will conduct scientific experiments and enjoy orbiting Earth in 2013 and 2014.<br /><br />ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will fly from Baikonur, Russia, next May for six months, followed by ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst and Samantha Cristoforetti in 2014.<br /><br />This video shows them training at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, USA<br />and Star City in Moscow, Russia.<br /><br />More information can be found on: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight
