ESA Astronaut Philippe Perrin preparing for an NBL dive.

JSC2001-02935 (26 November 2001) --- Astronaut Philippe Perrin, STS-111 mission specialist, attired in a training version of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) space suit, is about to be submerged in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Perrin represents CNES, the French Space Agency. STS-111 will be the 14th shuttle mission to visit the International Space Station (ISS).