Cedric Mabilotte's Web Corner

During a press conference organize today at the IBMP headquarters in Moscow, the composition of the main candidates was announced:
 
Main crew 105 days:
Sergeii Riazhanski - RU
Oleg Artemev - RU
Alexeii Baranowski - RU
Alexeii Shpakov - RU
Oliver Knickel - D
Cyrille Fournier - Fr
 
Backup Crew 105 days:
Cedric Mabilotte - Fr
Arc'hanmael Gaillard - Fr
 
Taking the opportunity of the conference, ESA acknowledge the backup crew is welcome to become candidate for the 520 period. Taking this into consideration, it open the doors for me to join the candidates crew and participate to the main phase of the experience, when all the scientific experiments will be conducted. So one may consider it indeed a good news to be a backup member: more knowledge !