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German astronaut Maurer on the ISS: Selfies in weightlessness

2021-11-12T13:50:11.609Z


He did it: Matthias Maurer was the fourth German to arrive on the International Space Station. After a good 20 hours' flight through space, all four newcomers floated to the welcome photo with the on-board crew.


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Great joy after around 20 hours of flight through space.

The German astronaut Matthias Maurer has arrived on the International Space Station ISS.

According to the US space agency NASA, the capsule of the "Crew Dragon" docked with Maurer and his three US colleagues on board Friday morning German time.

After the docking maneuver and opening the hatch, Maurer floated into the space station in blue overalls as the second astronaut of the crew after Kayla Barron.

The crew, who had been stationed on the ISS since April, was waiting there and greeted the newcomers with cheers and a common selfie in weightlessness.

Maurer and his Nasa colleagues took off on Thursday with the Crew Dragon of the private space company SpaceX from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in the US state of Florida.

Source: spiegel

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