on the cargo ship that had just crashed and will now have to alter the only suit they've got on the i.s.a.'s one of the cosmonauts will wear it for the space walk. before the launch the crew traditionally visits to honor the memory of the world's first cosmonaut despite the rain the absence of the tradition even though they know that if one of them forsake the launch will have to be perspiring and. beautiful you snowshoe clues english will line you put your. work because you did move which. group also should give you cause that you do need you could do with the news do it use a bird do some work with those who talk of. you know just a little bit of us would be for you for you. should you. absolutely. love to play for a couple. of. months of. maybe to. live. and. very little or. no. i'm not ok there are a few more. years of issues. that. you. play money if you please please please. please. just get past this. you know it's not good to me because i didn't have six no this was just it was it feel good to be a good story you know we've been told been mean you mean you're. not going to snap th

how you react to it and let's get more on the story now with british astronaut tim picu is a former i.s.a.'s crewmember temp thank you so much for joining us now you were once on the i s s tell us more about what the experience is like. good afternoon yes well the life aboard the international space station is absolutely incredible of course it's fundamentally microgravity portrayed so we're up there to do scientific research the crew work extremely hard a whole range of different scientific experiments but of course the space station is also been out there for twenty years now so it does require some maintenance activity as well and we have to keep ourselves physically fit in space so that we can bear the punishment of skrabets when we return so that means you're pretty busy up there. very busy indeed and of course alex it will be his second long duration mission to the space station so he knows exactly what life is like up that it's a very challenging environment in any one day we can be working with control centers from houston huntsville in the united states munich scooper in japan to

world in twenty four team german astronaut alex spent six months in the international space station i.s.a.'s. in just a few weeks will begin his second mission. but this time he'll be taking along an assistant named simon our reporter had a chance to meet him. good morning simon who are in contact with ground station no but how about some music great words for your favorite what interaction with simon will be like on the international space station simon can see hear and react to his environment he's currently being tested at the cologne facility where the human astronauts train for that mission and east usua company gemini astronaut alec. sunda guest when he joins the i s s crew this coming summer simon is designed to be a digital help her along the lines of siri or alexa the first flying astronaut assistant featuring also official intelligence as we have. for you have one autonomous free floating robot if you want to call it that lease food yachts need for europeans to sort of there's never been anything like it in the columbus module but you see behind me we're also entering unknown te

it's fascinating on his new mission called horizons gas will be the first german commander of the i.s.a.'s chancellor merkel calls him the german ambassador to space guest uses the nickname astro alex on his last mission he conducted over one hundred scientific experiments and a space walk which is one of the greatest challenges for an astronaut. going out the door is something that is of course a little bit more dangerous but once in a while we have to do this to install new experiments on the outside to keep the space station running and if that happens so force the extra stone saying no because it's of an amazing experience. one of the experiments gassed and his colleagues will conduct involves a so-called flying brain a robot with artificial intelligence. and a measure of humor. m r two d two just kidding my name is simon and i will support you. on this parabolic flight the robot is being tested in zero gravity as the first fully automatic robot with artificial intelligence simon is unique the robot will support alexander gas on his space mission by fulfilling routine tasks such as