epa05314752 German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) talks to German astronaut Alexander Gerst (R), while Jan Woerner (L), Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), looks on during her visit to the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) of the ESA in Cologne, Germany, 18 May 2016. Gerst is to become the first German commander of the International Space Station (ISS). Orion has been designed to take humans to the moon, asteroids or perhaps even Mars. EPA/OLIVER BERG Information