Industry committee  First of all, thank you very much, also from my side, for inviting us here today. Of course one of the big things was that we upgraded the international space station from a three-person crew at the start of our mission to a six-person crew. The international space station is n

Industry committee  Here you see the logos of all the partner agencies that are participating in this mission and a beautiful picture of the station we flew to, the ISS, which was of course the core of our logos for Expedition 20 and 21. We started as Expedition 20, and then later on, when part of t

Industry committee  Here you see an EVA operation ongoing on the Russian segment. For the first time in seven or eight years, we had a new module coming, also on the Russian segment, so the Russian segment is now also going to get into full swing. We did a lot of EVAs as well from the shuttle, when

Industry committee  You open up the hatch and the people come back in. The space walk takes about six to seven hours, but in total it's about eight to nine hours that they are in the suits without being able to scratch their noses, for example. It's quite interesting when people come back into the h

Industry committee  Here we see the HTV vehicle. This is the Japanese cargo vehicle we talked about. Shortly you will see here on the right-hand bottom side the Canadarm being operated by Nicole, who is grabbing this vehicle in mid-space, quite a complex operation. Again, everything--all the control

Industry committee  Here is another big moment for Europe and for myself: the arrival of another shuttle with an MPLM and with another European astronaut on board, Christer Fuglesang. Bob was very happy that Julie was on one of the shuttle missions and that there were two Canadians in space. This ti

Industry committee  Here we see the Russian vehicle approaching. In Russia they have progress ships, about four per year, that supply the space station with goods. The Russian cargo vehicles normally dock automatically, but here you see Max ready on the controls to take over if something goes wrong

Industry committee  Here some experiments are being done in the microscience glove box. It's a box that we use so we can work inside with materials that are toxic or dangerous to us. Here we see some echo scan equipment. Astronauts need to be versatile. I was trained as an engineer and a military

Industry committee  This is the new treadmill that we are installing in the U.S. segment. As you can see, we're working together. Teamwork, of course, is one of the primary things in space, but we also have fun, so after the installation we were demonstrating how we could all run together.

Industry committee  This picture, of course, shows the result of all our exercising. We did two hours of sports every single day.

Industry committee  Here we are flying through node 1. As you can see, while we are flying on a tour, there are a lot of smiling faces. Bob was smiling as usual. You saw him smiling when he came into the space station when we opened up the hatch. Bob stopped smiling when we closed the hatch and came

Industry committee  We do Earth observations for two reasons: first of all, it's psychological support for the crew to be able to look at our beautiful planet and to see where our families are. They're not so far away. On the other hand, we do a lot of Earth observations as scientific activities,

Industry committee  The coral reefs are some of the most beautiful things to watch from space. All of the shades of blue you see in the ocean are incredible.

Industry committee  Here you see some other daily activities on board because, of course, we also lived there for six months. We worked, but we also lived there for six months. Roman is not so happy here with Jeff doing his haircut, because he is from the air force and Jeff is from the army. They

Industry committee  Food was very important. We took all of our meals together. We had morning, midday, and evening meals with six around the table. If the space shuttle was there as it is right now, you would see 13 people around the table. Some have mastered eating in space better than others. T