How Alexander Gerst began his six-month journey aboard the International Space Station
In short: Witness the moment ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and his crew docked with the International Space Station in May 2014. This footage captures the start of a mission involving over 100 scientific experiments.
On 29 May 2014, Alexander Gerst, Reid Wiseman, and Maxim Suraev arrived at the International Space Station via a Soyuz spacecraft launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. While Gerst and Wiseman were making their first trip into space, Suraev was a veteran with 169 days of previous spaceflight experience.
During his 'Blue Dot' mission, Gerst was scheduled to live and work in orbit for six months, contributing to a vast array of scientific research through more than 100 different experiments.
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