Received a nice note this AM from ESA’s Laura Winterling, with the ATV training team at EAC, Cologne:

After a successful undocking for Edoardo last Friday night, the EAC ATV Training Team is glad to have been part of this 3rd ATV flight and we’d like to thank the ground personnel in ATV-CC, MCC-M and MCC-H for this amazing experience, good work cooperation and friendship.

ATV3 Undocking with Glavnj Operator in MCC-M and ATV Crew Instructor, last Friday night after successful ATV Hooks Opening and Undocking Credit: ESA

ATV3 Undocking with Glavnj Operator in MCC-M and ATV Crew Instructor, last Friday night after successful ATV Hooks Opening and Undocking Credit: ESA

All hope to continue the great work with the upcoming flight of Albert Einstein and are looking forward to working again on this international venture.

Meanwhile, Lionel Ferra, Michael Markus, Richard Moss, Oleg Polovnikov, Liliana Ravagnolo and Laura Winterling (see image below) have already started training for ATV-4 with the next Expeditions of 2013.

Group picture of ATV Crew Training Team inside the ATV Training Mockup in EAC, Cologne Credit: ESA

Group picture of ATV Crew Training Team inside the ATV Training Mockup in EAC, Cologne Credit: ESA