Samantha's 200 Days in Space

Samantha Cristoforetti is the first Italian female astronaut and the record holder for the longest time spent in orbit by a woman. Three months after coming back to planet Earth, she tells us her story.

Samantha Cristoforetti nella cupola della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale (ESA-NASA)

Samantha Cristoforetti nella cupola della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale (ESA-NASA) Source: ESA- NASA

Samantha Cristoforetti is a Captain in the Italian Air Force; after being selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009, she  completed basic astronaut training in November 2010.

In July 2012 she was assigned to an Italian Space Agency ASI mission aboard the International Space Station. She was launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 23 November 2014 on the second long-duration ASI mission and the eighth long-duration mission for an ESA astronaut.

Samantha worked and lived on the International Space Station for almost 200 days as part of her Futura mission, becoming the record holder for the longest time spent in orbit by a woman.

In this interview in English Samantha remembers the long-lasting impression of being weightless in space and explains how she has recovered once she has come back to gravity. Would she go back to space? Of course!
Photo taken for World Ocean Day
Photo taken for World Ocean Day (ESA-NASA) Source: ESA-NASA

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