Alexander Gerst

Testing a spacesuit at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA.

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. In this blog I want to tell you how ESA astronauts prepare for a space mission, how it is like to live in space for half a year and about my return to Earth. These are my impressions and I make no claim to truth on technical or operational information. I want to convey what it feels like to travel to space and see our Earth from a distance, appearing like a blue spaceship carrying all of us through the universe. I invite you to come with me on this trip!

This blog entry was translated from Alexander Gerst’s original text in German.