Thomas Reiter
Living in Zero Gravity
Walking through the universe
He has travelled round the Earth 5,600 times, spent 350 days in space, and completed several spacewalks while flying at a speed of 28,000 kilometres per hour. Thomas Reiter has dedicated himself wholeheartedly to space travel and lives a life of extremes. Science journalist Hildegard Werth not only covers all the important terrestrial stations of his career – his training at Star City near Moscow, encounters with space pioneers such as Sigmund Jähn, his work in Houston, at Cape Canaveral, and at the European Space Agency – but also offers extraordinary insights into Reiter's regular »everyday madness« on the Mir and the NASA ISS space stations.
Hildegard Werth, born 1950 in Saarbrücken, has specialised in science journalism at ZDF (renowned German television station), reporting on space flight and astronomy, and has won many awards for her science publications. She has been following Thomas Reiter's career closely with her camera since the 1990s and the result can be seen in numerous documentaries such as Orbital Jump (ZDF), Space Travel Theme Evening (ZDFdokukanal), as well as Thomas Reiter – Our Man In Space (3sat).
Walking through the universe
He has travelled round the Earth 5,600 times, spent 350 days in space, and completed several spacewalks while flying at a speed of 28,000 kilometres per hour. Thomas Reiter has dedicated himself wholeheartedly to space travel and lives a life of extremes. Science journalist Hildegard Werth not only covers all the important terrestrial stations of his career – his training at Star City near Moscow, encounters with space pioneers such as Sigmund Jähn, his work in Houston, at Cape Canaveral, and at the European Space Agency – but also offers extraordinary insights into Reiter's regular »everyday madness« on the Mir and the NASA ISS space stations.
Hildegard Werth, born 1950 in Saarbrücken, has specialised in science journalism at ZDF (renowned German television station), reporting on space flight and astronomy, and has won many awards for her science publications. She has been following Thomas Reiter's career closely with her camera since the 1990s and the result can be seen in numerous documentaries such as Orbital Jump (ZDF), Space Travel Theme Evening (ZDFdokukanal), as well as Thomas Reiter – Our Man In Space (3sat).
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