posted 11-04-2015 05:43 PM               

With the International Space Station, mankind's ancient dream to leave our planet and conquer space has come true. It is the greatest technological project ever imagined in history.

The young ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is the third German to travel to the ISS, and along with his NASA colleague Reid Wiseman, he launched in May 2014 from Baikonur to spend six months in humanity's outpost in space. These young astronauts take the audience along on this adventure. Over the course of six months they filmed their mission in space.

The film is a must-see, if for no other reason than the rare access Hansen had to Gerst and Wiseman while at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, ESA's Astronaut Centre in Cologne and at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. But that is to say nothing of the scenes the astronauts filmed themselves aboard the Soyuz and on the space station, which include stunning shots of Earth and some very unique views of life in orbit. I thoroughly enjoyed it.