Alexander Gerst
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Alexander Gerst is a German European Space Agency (ESA) 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 6 June 2018, as part of Expedition 56/57. He was the Commander of the International Space Station. He returned to Earth on 20 December 2018. After the end of his second mission and before being surpassed by Luca Parmitano in 2020, he held 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.
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Soyuz MS-09 ⓘ
Russian crewed flight to the ISS -

Soyuz TMA-13M ⓘ
2014 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS -

Expedition 56 ⓘ
56th expedition to the International Space Station -

Expedition 40 ⓘ
40th expedition to the International Space Station -

Expedition 41 ⓘ
41st expedition to the International Space Station -

Horizons ⓘ
European space mission -

Expedition 57 ⓘ
57th expedition to the International Space Station
| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| class | orbit | Soyuz MS-09 | Alexander Gerst, Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor, Sergey Prokopyev, Soyuz MS, human spaceflight, | Wikidata | |
| class | orbit | Soyuz TMA-13M | Alexander Gerst, Gregory Reid Wiseman, Maksim Surayev, Soyuz TMA-M, human spaceflight, | Wikidata | |
| class | spaceflight | Expedition 56 | Alexander Gerst, Andrew J. Feustel, Oleg Artemyev, Richard R. Arnold, Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor, Sergey Prokopyev, expedition to the International Space Station, | Wikidata | |
| class | spaceflight | 2014 | Expedition 40 | Aleksandr Skvortsov, Alexander Gerst, Gregory Reid Wiseman, Maksim Surayev, Oleg Artemyev, Steven Swanson, expedition to the International Space Station, | Wikidata |
| class | spaceflight | 2014 | Expedition 41 | Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Alexander Gerst, Barry E. Wilmore, Gregory Reid Wiseman, Maksim Surayev, Yelena Serova, expedition to the International Space Station, | Wikidata |
| class | spaceflight | 2018 | Horizons | Alexander Gerst, space mission, | Wikidata |
| class | spaceflight | 2018 | Expedition 57 | Alexander Gerst, Anne McClain, David Saint-Jacques, Oleg Kononenko, Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor, Sergey Prokopyev, expedition to the International Space Station, | Wikidata |
| commons | image | Besuch von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz bei der DLR und ESA in Köln-40784 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Inauguration of the LUNA Analog Facility | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Besuch von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz bei der DLR und ESA in Köln-40667 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Inauguration of the LUNA Analog Facility | Commons | ||
| commons | image | ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst at re-publica conference 2015 ESA15388618 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Besuch von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz bei der DLR und ESA in Köln-40684 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Besuch von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz bei der DLR und ESA in Köln-40627 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Besuch von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz bei der DLR und ESA in Köln-40792 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Besuch von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz bei der DLR und ESA in Köln-40632 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Besuch von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz bei der DLR und ESA in Köln-40796 | Commons | ||









