In view of the escalating conflict in Ukraine, the German astronaut Alexander Gerst hopes that cooperation with Russia in space can contribute to rapprochement. “It has always been an international understanding,” he told the German Press Agency on the sidelines of the European space conference in Brussels. Because space travel is so complex, it forces you to cooperate.
“We also view such conflicts with concern. We hope that our fellow human beings can overcome them and we try to contribute to this,” he emphasized, referring to his Russian colleagues, with whom he is also friends and has been training together for years. These see it the same way.