European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, Expedition 40/41 flight engineer, attired in a training version of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit, awaits the start of a spacewalk training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117536466" class="extiw" title="d:Q117536466"><span title="American photographer">James Blair</span></a>
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Taken on 7 November 2012
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