As on the Moon: astronauts use the Spanish island for trainings

Being kneeling on the edge of a deep crater, the astronaut Alexander Gerst with help chisels collects an example of volcanic breed and carefully puts it in a white plastic package. Alexander Gerst not on the Moon even if it also looks so. It is in the center of natural park Los-Vulkanes on the island Lanzarote to Spain. The turned black lava fields, craters and volcanic pipes – the geology Lanzarote is very similar to Moon and Mars geology. EKA and National administration office on aeronautics and space research for many years send astronauts to the island for training. Alexander Gerst, executed two mission on ISS, is one of dozen of astronauts, which for the last...