1. Alexander Gerst was part of the International Space Station Expedition 40 and 41 from May to November 2014.
18 Facts About Alexander Gerst
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Alexander Gerst was the Commander of the International Space Station.
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Alexander Gerst graduated from the Technical High School in Ohringen, Germany, in 1995.
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Alexander Gerst studied at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, where he received a degree in geophysics with distinction.
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From 1998 to 2003 Alexander Gerst participated in several international scientific collaborations and field experiments, including some in remote locations such as Antarctica.
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From 2001 to 2003, Alexander Gerst studied for a master's degree in earth sciences at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
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Alexander Gerst worked as a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Hamburg between 2004 and 2009, and received his doctorate in natural sciences from the University of Hamburg in 2010, with a dissertation on geophysics and volcanic eruption dynamics at Mount Erebus volcano in Antarctica.
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In 2007 Alexander Gerst received the Bernd Rendel award for outstanding research from the German Research Foundation.
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Alexander Gerst has published several papers, including one in Nature.
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Alexander Gerst was selected as an astronaut in 2009 by the European Space Agency.
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On 7 October 2014, Alexander Gerst performed his first extravehicular activity with Reid Wiseman.
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Alexander Gerst is the commander of the ISS for Expedition 57.
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Alexander Gerst was the second European Space Agency astronaut to command the station, after Frank de Winne commanded Expedition 21, and the youngest astronaut to command the station, at age 42 as of October 2018.
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On 20 July 2018, while on the ISS, Alexander Gerst took part in a live concert by the German electronic music group Kraftwerk in the German city of Stuttgart.
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Alexander Gerst addressed the audience and played a synthesizer during the performance of the song "Spacelab".
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On 20 December 2018 he and his crewmates Serena Aunon-Chancellor and Sergey Prokopyev returned to Earth and landed in Kazakhstan after 197 days in space, combined with the 165 days in space on his last mission, Alexander Gerst has 362 days in space, more than any other ESA astronaut in history.
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Alexander Gerst is single, and in his spare time he enjoys mountaineering, diving, climbing and skydiving.
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Alexander Gerst is a licensed radio amateur and has participated in several ARISS educational contacts.