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    • Title Alexander Gerst coming out from a Columbus laboratory mockup
    • Released 21/09/2011 10:54 am
    • Copyright ESA - M. Stolla
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      Alexander Gerst, ESA astronaut, emerging from from the Columbus laboratory mockup at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.

      Alexander will fly to the International Space Station in 2014 for a six-month mission as a flight engineer of Expeditions 40 and 41.

      Alexander Gerst was born in Künzelsau, Germany, in 1976. He studied at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, where he received a diploma in geophysics. He also studied Earth Science at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, where he was awarded a Master of Science. He has been working as a researcher since 2001. In his spare time he enjoys mountaineering, diving, climbing and skydiving.

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