The Astronaut Academy: The ’rollercoaster ride’ of reentry to Earth

The last leg of the return to Earth from space is one of the trickiest and potentially most dangerous moments in the astronaut’s journey. ESA mission veteran “Alexander Gerst“: talked Euronews through the experience of hurtling towards the the planet’s surface inside a cramped “Soyuz capsule“:: “In order to get into the atmosphere safely you have to separate your spacecraft… READ MORE