After more than half a year in the International space station ISS, the German Alexander returned Gerst to earth. A Soyuz capsule with Gerst and two other astronauts landed on Thursday in the Kazakh desert, such as the Russian control centre said. “The Crew of the manned Soyuz MS-09 has returned safely to earth.”
The capsule landed shortly after 6 PM Central European time. They had undocked three and a half hours earlier from the ISS. On Board the Nasa astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev.
Gerst will travel on Thursday to Germany, and in the evening foot on German soil again: A machine with the 42-Year-old is expected to be in the evening on the military part of the Cologne/Bonn airport.
Gerst spent six and a half months on the ISS, where he died on may 8. June had arrived. His second long-duration mission on the space station under the Motto “Horizons”. Since then, the “Astro Alex” became popular spaceman and his colleagues carried out on the ISS, a variety of experiments in the framework of the Mission “Horizons”. At the beginning of October took Gerst is the first German command of the ISS. Before Gerst, a European Astronaut had with the Belgian, Frank de Winne in 2009, once the command on the ISS. (fal/afp)
Created: 20.12.2018, 07:37 PM
