Launch week live with Alexander Gerst 👨‍🚀🚀✨ Just days before the launch of #Crew3 to the International Space Station, astronaut esa_astro_alex joined europeanspaceagency live to share his own experiences of life in orbit and wish his fellow ESA astronaut esamatthiasmaurer all the best for his very first space mission #CosmicKiss. Matthias and his NASA crewmates astro_raja, astro_kayla and astromarshburn will be launched in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft from nasakennedy in Florida, USA. Follow Matthias on Instagram for all the latest updates as he lives and works in space. Hint: watch to the end for a special surprise guest 😉👨‍🚀✨