spread Gerst with the mouse, Gerst in a Halloween costume In almost 200 days on the International space station (ISS) Astronaut Alexander Gerst hundreds of messages on Twitter. Most of his images of nature have been shared disasters, such as hurricane “Florence” in the United States, or the forest fires in California and commented. “Hurricane Florence is so huge that we could only with a wide-angle camera to capture,” wrote “Astro Alex” on 12. September. The image is made up of around 400 kilometers altitude, it was almost retweeted 25,000 Times.

pictures of Typhoon “Trami”, the on 25. September was on the way to Japan, got over 17,000 Retweets. The third most popular Tweet with over 7,000 Retweets and nearly 24,000 “Likes” was the time-lapse recording of a Supply spaceship, the earth in the direction of space leaves, observed from the ISS.

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The curious pages of the astronauts-were part of everyday life also to the Top Tweets. “I have found here on the #ISS of a specialist, the was probably opened been around for a while,” wrote Gerst on 20. November. On the image several disks are to be seen – one of them with the 20-year-old operating systems such as Windows 95/98. About 4000 Times Alexander Gersts Retro was retweeted-Fund. The children’s TV icons the mouse and the elephant in a space suit, as well as the ISS Crew in a Halloween costume and brought it up to about 1300 or 2400 Retweets. (dpa)