Horizons media day

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst’s news conference took place at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany on 17 April 2018. Over 135 media attended the event.

Alexander will be launched in June with US astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft.

The mission is called Horizons to evoke exploring our Universe, looking far beyond our planet and broadening our knowledge.