Dermot O’Leary presented the first instalment of a three part first ever fly on the wall documentary about life for an astronaut living in the international space station.

Astronauts Rick Mastracchio, Koichi Wakata and Mike Hopkins, revealed much about their work and their family life as they go about doing an extraordinary job from so many miles above the surface of the planet.

These are some of the photos from the first series:

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