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Steve Swanson Takes a Spin in a Rotating Chair

Steve Swanson Takes a Spin in a Rotating Chair
Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA takes a spin in a rotating chair.

JSC2014-E-026898 (19 March 2014) — At his Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA takes a spin in a rotating chair March 19 as part of his conditioning in preparation for launch to the International Space Station with two crewmates on MArch 26, Kazakh time. They are Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). They are scheduled to lift off in the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft for a six-month mission. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov