Before Monday afternoon’s undocking, German astronaut Matthias Maurer, who’s waiting to launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, tweeted it was a shame the two crews wouldn’t overlap at the ...

Hans Schlegel became Germany's sixth astronaut in orbit when he lifted off on 26 April 1993 as part of the second German Spacelab mission (D2). With him were German Ulrich Walter and five American ...

A crew of three - Roscosmos’s Sergei Prokopiev, and US and German astronauts Serena Aunon-Chancellor and Alexander Gerst - remains on the ISS. The next expedition - Russia’s Alexei Ovchinin an ...