Scientists rehearse for Foton mission

Preparing biology experiments for the Foton M3 mission in the new microgravity lab at ESTEC, in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Foton M3 is scheduled for launch in September 2007. The unmanned capsule will spend 12 days orbiting the Earth exposing it's payload of experiments to microgravity. At the end of the mission the capsule will re-enter Earth's atmosphere to land in the border zone between Russia and Kazakhstan. Credits: ESA - S. Muirhead