It’s believed that Frank De Winne will go to the ISS for 6 months in 2009, althoug this isn’t official confirmed.
He will fly to the ISS with the Russian Sojoez. If this goes trough, it will be his second time in space, after his spaceflight in october/november 2002, also with the Russian Sojoez capsule.

But maybe he’ll go to space even earlier, as he’s french’s Léopold Eyharts backup who’s set to go to space in december this year. The launch is sheduled for 6 december. They will do their trip to space with the spaceshuttle Atlantis. The main job they have to do is to connect the lab-module Columbus to the ISS.

Hopefully this will be covered on NASA tv, so we can watch this.

I do hope nothing will happen with the French astronaut, but deep down my Belgian hearth and voice is saying let Frank go. Who know’s, maybe Léopold will get sick or needs a face lift surgery at the last moment? And then it will be Frank’s turn.

As long as we’re talking about space, I can give you a short update about Q-music’s trip to space give away.
I did the test on their site. They’ve asked 30 space related questions and the 20 best scores and fastest times to awnser of each province, were selected to take part at the elemination rounds. I scored 27 out of 30, but this wasn’t good enough it seems. Too bad for me.  From these 100 candidates, they went to 25, 5 people of each province.
At the moment they are eleminating these 25 to 5 people who still can win the trip to space.