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Samantha Cristoforetti began writing her log book in July 2013, 500 days before her launch to the International Space Station. Her logbook entries have been translated into Italian and posted on Avamposto42 from June 2014. To read all about Samantha’s training and  follow her join her on Google+.

L+100, L+101: Three spacewalks in 8 days

Thursday

02:18

05/03/2015

The Logbook is back! Sorry for the very long Loss of Signal, it’s been a busy time: three spacewalks in 8 days can really fill your days and I felt that I needed to focus on ... Read more

L+80 to L+82: Bye bye ATV, don’t panic!

Monday

00:42

16/02/2015

After working on a tight schedule through the weekend to get Dragon ready for departure and then to release it on Tuesday, on Wednesday we were given a day off. Hurrah! I’m a... Read more

L+76 to L+79: Farewell Dragon

Saturday

19:43

14/02/2015

It’s been quite a historic day here on ISS: the last of the Automated Transfer Vehicles of the European Space Agency, ATV-5 George Lemaitre, has just departed and is now safel... Read more

L+74 to L+75: Deploying cubesats

Wednesday

12:58

11/02/2015

We have sent Dragon back home yesterday! I’ll tell you more about this in the coming days, but for now, I’ll just say this: looking back at the past weeks since Dragon arrival... Read more

L+72 to L+73: Vestibule check

Sunday

00:31

08/02/2015

Today is Saturday and, wow, this has been a busy week! Not so much time to keep you updated on our work and life up here, unfortunately. But hey, we can still catch up a littl... Read more

L+68 to L+71: Ten weeks passed

Wednesday

13:28

04/02/2015

Well, here we are. Ten weeks have passed already: don’t know what’s going on up here, but time is going by way too fast!On Friday I had another date with our space worms, the ... Read more

L+59 to L+65: Lots of experiments

Thursday

11:45

29/01/2015

Lots of experiments filling up my days this past week – sorry I didn’t keep you updated much, but it’s really busy up here on humanity’s outpost in space! Some experiments wer... Read more

L+57, L+58: Subject of experiment

Friday

16:51

23/01/2015

This has been one of those weeks when the subject of the experiment is often… me. Human physiology has definitely been very present on my science schedule, starting already o... Read more

L+55: Zero Robotics

Thursday

08:48

22/01/2015

I know, I’m a bit late with the logbooks, but bear with me, I still want to bring you back to last week one more time, because last Friday we had a very special event on the S... Read more