A new blog post from André about a special surprise brought to him from the Columbus Control Centre in Munich, Germany.

He writes: “In my free time I like to contact people on Earth. For example, when we fly over Hawaii I try to phone a friend who lives there. Recently my family went skiing in Austria. I phoned them when we were flying over the Alps. It is a strange idea that they are somewhere on those mountains, while I am looking at the same mountains from a distance of 400 kilometres above. Helen had very nice surprise for me during her skiing holiday. A real surprise party in space…”

Read more in André’s blog: A nice surprise from the Columbus control centre in Munich