Floating ahead…
12/06/2015
Wow, a world record! Congratulations, Samantha! An Italian woman is now the record holder for the “longest female presence in space”! Even longer than any cosmonaut, and the R... Read more
Safe journey back, Samantha!
11/06/2015
Safe journey back, Samantha! This time it seems to be true: the mission of Samantha and her colleagues Terry Virts and Anton Shkaplerov will end 11 June after 199,7 days. Onl... Read more
I’m a plumber by profession
10/06/2015
If I had some more free time – oh how I wish…! – if I had more free time and I had finished my home construction, landscaped the garden and my children were grown-up and no lo... Read more
Samantha overtakes Sunita as holder of longest spaceflight for women
06/06/2015
Sunita Williams during spacewalk. Credits: NASA Since Saturday 6 June at around 16:21 CET (14:21 GMT) ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti holds the record for the longest si... Read more
Samantha beats ESA astronaut single-duration record
04/06/2015
Today at around 17:27 CET ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will break the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight of an ESA astronaut. She was originally planned ... Read more
Cooking in space at the Restaurant at the end of the universe
04/06/2015
Six month have passed already since the beginning the Futura mission and Node 1, our personal “Restaurant at the end of the universe” has witnessed many space meals, with dish... Read more