Crew gets ready

And upstairs, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and Russian cosmonaut Sasha Skvortsov are getting ready to oversee today’s docking!

Preparing to control docking of @ESA's #ATV5 space cargo freighter to #ISS today. Watch on https://t.co/uBE3DMHQAK pic.twitter.com/amQBWoBNiT

— Alexander Gerst (@Astro_Alex) August 12, 2014