From left to right: Chairman of the Executive Board of DLR, Prof. Johann-Dietrich Wörner, ESA Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie; BMWi), Peter Hintze, and ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, Simonetta Di Pippo, welcome Alexander Gerst (right) to the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne on 9 July 2009.