Alexander Gerst training for Horizons

Date: Tue, Jun 27, 2017 | 06:30 - 06:45 GMT | 08:30 - 08:45 CEST

Replay: Tue, Jun 27, 2017 | 15:00 - 15:15 GMT | 17:00 - 17:15 CEST

Type: ESA TV Exchange

Format: 16:9

ESA Astronaut Alexander Gerst from Germany will be travelling to the International Space Station in May 2018.

He is the first of ESA’s class of 2009 astronauts who will be sent into space for a second time, launching from Baikonur on Soyuz MS-09 together with NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps and Russian spacecraft commander Sergei Prokopyev.

During this long-duration spaceflight which has been named Horizons Alexander Gerst will be part of Expedition 56 and 57 and will be taking over as commander of the Space Station for Expedition 57.

He is now training and was recently at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas.

More information at: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Alexander_Gerst

Preview and download:
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2017/06/Alexander_Gerst_training_for_his_second_ISS_mission

Script:
Alexander_Gerst_Aroll_final.doc

Satellite Parameters: Eutelsat 9A at 9 degrees E, transponder 59, downlink frequency 11900.1 horizontally polarised, symbol rate 27,500 FEC 2/3.