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
The return of the fruit flies
27/01/2015
When my Boss told me a few months ago to “Go and interview them,” I could not believe it. “Are you serious?” I replied. “You want me to interview those…” But she had already l... Read more
Welcome to our very own Milliways
24/11/2014
“Yes sir”, said the waiter… “This is Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe.” The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures... Read more
A mission with the right character
15/10/2014
Anton Shkaplerov and Terry Virts: do you recognize them? They are Samantha Cristoforetti’ s fellow mission members. They were assigned the Soyuz TMA-15M mission that, in late... Read more
Freeze dry
04/09/2014
At Earth’s surface, escape velocity (the speed needed to leave our planet) is about 11.2 km/s, more than 40 thousand km/h. Many science fiction writers came up with systems co... Read more