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\nThis week one year ago, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen (left) spent 10 days in space on his \u2018iriss\u2019 mission to the International Space Station. He was launched on 2 September 2015 in a Soyuz spacecraft with cosmonaut commander Sergei Volkov (right) and returned in a different Soyuz with commander Gennadi Padalka. Sergei stayed on to complete his third six-month stay on the Space Station.\n<\/p>\n
\nAndreas and Sergei unveiled a bust of Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, exactly a year after their own launch. The event commemorated Gagarin\u2019s visit to Denmark 54 years ago during his tour of Europe after his landmark orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe bust is at the Danish Technical University near Copenhagen, Denmark. The university participated in a number of experiments on the International Space Station, including Andreas imaging a newly discovered weather phenomenon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \nThis week one year ago, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen (left) spent 10 days in space on his ‘iriss’ mission to the International Space Station. He was launched on 2 September 2015 in a Soyuz spacecraft with cosmonaut commander Sergei Volkov (right) and returned in a different Soyuz with commander Gennadi Padalka. Sergei stayed on to complete his third six-month stay on the Space Station.\n<\/p>\n \nAndreas and Sergei unveiled a bust of Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, exactly a year after their own launch. The event commemorated Gagarin’s visit to Denmark 54 years ago during his tour of Europe after his landmark orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n