André Kuipers with his crewmates Don Pettit and Oleg Kononeko during a training session in the ISS simulator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), in Russia, in August 2011. Kuipers, Dutch national and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station (ISS Expeditions 30 and 31) for a long-duration mission in 2011.