, The German Astronaut Alexander Gerst is after more than half a year on the International space station, ISS, returned to earth.

Alexander Gerst (42) is at 20. December, securely on earth, German Astronaut for more than six months had landed on the International space station, “Astro Alex” on 8. June 2018 on the ISS
arrived After the first medical Checks flies Gerst returned to Germany

Astro-Alex is flying back to Germany

Update from the 20. December, 10.17 PM: , The German spaceman Alexander Gerst, has brought to his landing on earth, the first medical checks.

After a medical examination of the crew of the Soyuz-capsule “MC-9 was flown” with a helicopter to Karaganda in Kazakhstan, wrote Dmitry Rogozin, head of the space Agency, Roscosmos, on Thursday on Twitter. About Norway Alexander Gerst will fly to Germany. The 42-Year-old is expected to be at 20.45 at the airport Cologne/Bonn.

Alexander landed Gerst sure: that’s Why the Astronaut is supported

Update from the 20. December, 10.02 PM: a Long time it was unclear whether Alexander Gerst Christmas can celebrate at home. The failed launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket in mid-October to the ISS had shaken up the schedule. But now the Astronaut has landed at 6.00 am, as planned, to the earth. Alexander stretches Gerst shortly after the landing his right fist in the air, cheers and laughs. But then, the geophysicist from the capsule. The reason is that astronauts have to adapt back to the earth.

“You don’t want the astronauts to tip over. The blood bags in the legs and may be missing in the brain,“ explains the space E. Claudia Goldenbahis Stern from the German center for air and space travel to the German news Agency.

+ Soyuz space capsule landed: Alexander Gerst is carried from the Soyuz space capsule.©Reuters / SHAMIL ZHUMATOV

Alexander Gerst is after 197 days on earth

Scheskasgan – His Soyuz space capsule with two other astronauts on Thursday shortly after 6.00 PM GMT in the Kazakh Steppe. The showed Live images of the US space Agency Nasa.

Alexander Gerst landed with two other astronauts on Thursday in the Kazakh desert, such as the control center announced. On Board the Nasa astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev. The capsule had undocked three and a half hours earlier from the ISS.

Alexander Gerst will fly on Thursday to Cologne/Bonn

Gerst will travel on Thursday to Germany, and in the evening foot on German soil again: A machine with the 42-Year-old is expected to be in the evening on the military part of the Cologne/Bonn airport.

Gerst spent six and a half months on the ISS, where he died on may 8. June had arrived. His second long-duration mission on the space station under the Motto “Horizons”. Since then, the “Astro Alex” became popular spaceman and his colleagues carried out on the ISS, a variety of experiments in the framework of the Mission “Horizons”.

at the beginning of October took Gerst is the first German command of the ISS. Before Gerst, a European Astronaut had with the Belgian, Frank de Winne in 2009, once the command on the ISS.

After his return to the earth of the first studies to stand for the German astronaut Alexander Gerst. Doctors want to find out how the more than three-hour return flight and the stay on the International space station ISS on its body.

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