Posted on 24 February 2014 by Alexander
For a while I feared that the never-ending flow of technical information I absorbed for my mission training, coupled with the fact that I am surrounded by colleagues who have just returned from, or are about to...
Posted on 16 February 2014 by Alexander
When training for a space mission, sooner or later you lose your sense of time. It might sound bizarre, but to me the time ahead (more precisely, the period between now and the start of my mission...
Posted on 15 February 2014 by blogteam
Watch the video to hear ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst explain the Blue Dot mission patch in his own words. Alexander is set for a six-month stay on the International Space Station leaving Earth from Baikonur cosmodrome in...
Posted on 14 February 2014 by Alexander
Welcome to the Blue dot mission blog – the portal for travel reports and other information on my flight to space on the International Space Station from May to November 2014.