Just took a look at my train ticket to the airport. Return home: March 28th. In between I will go once around the world: four weeks in Moscow, then Eastward to Japan for two weeks, then on to Houston in March. End of March back here for training at the European Astronaut Centre.
And this won’t be my last round-the-world trip this year. Only ten months left to launch and it will be a marathon: nice and steady all the way to the launch pad.
In between Terry, Anton and I will serve as backup crew for Maxim, Reid and fellow Shenanigan Alex. Full sequence of qualification exams, quarantine in Baikonur and then, if all goes well, we’ll watch them blast off on May 29th. Six months later, our turn! An exciting journey with lots of marvelous people and I hope you’ll come along.
As you know, the mission now has a name, Futura: a beautiful reminder that we’re building together a future for us human beings in space. As of Wednesday last week, Futura also has a logo, that I will proudly wear on my flight suit. Thanks to Valerio Papeti for submitting the winning concept.
Training logbook officially restarts tomorrow. Today I want to thank the people who volunteer their time to make this logbook accessible to friends who don’t read English quite yet: thanks to +Paolo Amoroso and the good folks of the +AstronautiNEWS community for the Italian translation. Thanks to +Anne Cpamoa and @Intervidia for the French and Spanish translations!
There is no special agreement with these friends: they see the posts when they’re published and sometimes translations appear so quickly that I wonder if they read my mind remotely and know in advance what I will write.
Thank you, you guys rock!
(Trad IT) Traduzione in italiano a cura di +AstronautiNEWS qui:
https://www.astronautinews.it/tag/logbook/
(Trad ES) Tradducción en español aquí:
https://www.intervidia.com/category/bitacora/
(Trad FR) Traduction en français par +Anne Cpamoa ici:
https://spacetux.org/cpamoa/category/traductions/logbook-samantha/
26/01/2014