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 ...

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Alexander Gerst is one of the most social media savvy astronauts in space. — -- Even astronauts in orbit use Facebook. Alexander Gerst, who is perhaps the most social media savvy astronaut ...

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 ...

As he entered his final month on the International Space Station on Monday, Alexander Gerst could be proud that he's helped given birth to a healthy, if moody, robot. Gerst, a German astronaut and ...

German astronaut Alexander Gerst, who lives aboard the International Space Station, used his camera to take stunning photos of the total lunar eclipse, or blood moon, from orbit on July 27, 2018.

On Wednesday, German astronaut Alexander Gerst tweeted what he described as the “saddest” photo he’d ever taken from the International Space Station (ISS). The photo gives us an aerial view ...

Only in space 10 days and already treated to one spectacular Earth show!European Space Agency Astronaut Alexander Gerst captured this time lapse of the Northern Lights on board the International ...

Gerst’s photos show a beautiful, reddish glow from the transition of daylight to night. The photos are simply captioned, “This is what a sunset on Earth looks like from above.” In just a day ...

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst of Germany tweeted a photograph of the Great Salt Lake in Utah from the International Space Station on July 23, 2014.

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 ...