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Surface Port - 1,477 Ls
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May Installation
Surface Port - 2,557 Ls
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Pierce Enterprise
Surface Port - 2,566 Ls
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Hartog Installation
Surface Port - 2,568 Ls
Progressive Party of 72 Ophiuchi
Vernadsky City
Starport (Orbis) - 2,573 Ls
German Pilot Lounge
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Alexander Gerst
Dr. Alexander Gerst (born May 3, 1976 in Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg) is a 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 crew from May to November 2014.
Gerst studied at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, where he received a degree in geophysics. He also studied earth science at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, where he was awarded a master of science. He has been working as a researcher since 2005 and received his doctorate in natural sciences at the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Hamburg in 2010, with a dissertation on geophysics and volcanic eruption dynamics. In his spare time, he enjoys mountaineering, diving, climbing and skydiving.
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