On 6 June 2018 at 13:12 CEST, the German ESA astronaut set off with NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev on his second long-duration space mission The arrival of the ...

An astronaut in space captured haunting photographs of Friday's total lunar eclipse, also called a blood moon because of its eerie orange-red color. German astronaut Alexander Gerst, a geophysicist ...

South Africa as seen from the International Space Station by astronaut Alexander Gerst on Sep. 29, 2014. Shanghai at night as seen from the International Space Station by astronaut Alexander Gerst on ...

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst went on his first spacewalk Tuesday with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman. Working in the moonlight, the duo spent a total of six hours and 13 minutes ...

The German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst returned to Earth safely after 197 days in space. The Soyuz capsule landed on schedule in the Kazakh steppe at 6:02 Central European Time (CET). On 3 October ...

"Harsh land. Windswept valleys in northern #Africa"—Alexander Gerst via Twitter on July 6, 2014 "Harsh land. Windswept valleys in northern #Africa"—Alexander Gerst via Twitter on July 6, 2014 ...

Current International Space Station Cmdr. Alexander Gerst expected to be welcoming two additional crewmembers to the orbiting laboratory Thursday (Oct. 11) — but instead, he found himself ...

After Chris Hadfield and Karen L Nyberg, Alexander Gerst, on Twitter @Astro_Alex, is the latest astronaut to capture global attention with his stunning photographs of Earth from space. Can the German ...

After his second mission to the International Space Station, Alexander Gerst has returned home. He sent some thoughts about the state of the world before he left the station above the planet. European ...

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has been assigned a new mission to the International Space Station, where he will fulfil the role of commander during the second part of his six-month mission in 2018.

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Astronaut Alexander Gerst posted this image on his Flickr page saying, “checking out our Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft that will take us to the International Space Station in five days.” Astronaut ...