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As he posted the awe-inspiring shots earlier in the week, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency wrote that staring down "the gaping eye of a category 4 hurricane" is "chilling, even from space.

In a groundbreaking announcement by theEuropean Space Agency (ESA), Germany will be sending the first European astronaut to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program. This achievement marks a ...

European Space Agency (ESA) astronauts have completed a helicopter training course to prepare them for upcoming lunar landings.… The astronauts in question include Alexander Gerst, Matthias Maurer, ...

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and his NASA colleague Reid Wiseman are launched into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Gerst and Wiseman spend six months in humanity's ...