Alexander Gerst
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Alexander Gerst
b. May 3, 1976
LIFE FORM
Gender
Occupation
Geophysicist
MISSIONS
2
TIME IN SPACE
362D:01H:50M
SPACEWALKS
1
SPACEWALK TIME
00D:06H:13M
Alexander Gerst
548
Alexander Gerst
b. May 3, 1976
LIFE FORM
Gender
Occupation
Geophysicist
MISSIONS
2
TIME IN SPACE
362D:01H:50M
SPACEWALKS
1
SPACEWALK TIME
00D:06H:13M
WIKIPEDIA EXCERPT
Alexander Gerst is a German European Space Agency astronaut and geophysicist, who was selected in 2009 to take part in space training. He was part of the International Space Station Expedition 40 and 41 from May to November 2014. Gerst returned to space on June 6, 2018, as part of Expedition 56/57. He was the Commander of the International Space Station. He returned to Earth on December 20, 2018. Since the end of his second mission, he holds the record for most time in space of any active ESA astronaut, succeeding Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, and German ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, who formally held the record for the longest time in space for any active or retired ESA astronaut.