Space Station Crew Member Pays Tribute to His Hometown from Orbit

Space Sta­tion Crew Mem­ber Pays Trib­ute to His Home­town from Orbit



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Aboard the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion, Expe­di­tion 40 Flight Engi­neer Alexan­der Gerst of the Euro­pean Space Agency par­tic­i­pat­ed in a home­town reunion from orbit as he dis­cussed his flight with dig­ni­taries and res­i­dents of Kun­zel­sau, Ger­many, dur­ing an in-flight event Sept. 4. Gerst, who arrived on the com­plex in late May, is in the midst of a 5 1Ž2 mis­sion that will cul­mi­nate in a land­ing in Kaza­khstan in his Russ­ian Soyuz TMA-13M space­craft in ear­ly November.



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