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Samantha Cristoforetti
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Italian European Space Agency astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer (1977)
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Milan - Lombardy - Italy
Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She is the first Italian woman in space.
Known for
- Galileo (R)evolution2023
- Noos - The Adventure of Knowledge2023
- The Wonderful: Stories from the Space Station — Self2021
- Moon: The Battles of Space — Self - Astronaut2019
- Be Kind2018
- Homo Spatius — Self2018
- Astrosamantha2016
- A Beautiful Planet — Self (uncredited)2016
- Lesenswert — Self2013
- No Gravity — Self2011
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1977-04-26 ) 26 April 1977 (age 49) , Milan , Italy
- Alma mater
- Technical University of Munich University of Naples Federico II
- Occupations
- Astronaut engineer
- Spouse
- Lionel Ferra
- Status
- Active
- Time in space
- 370 days, 5 hours, 45 minutes
- Selection
- 2009 ESA Group
- Total eva time
- 7 hours, 5 minutes
- Missions
- Soyuz TMA-15M ( Expedition 42 / 43 ) SpaceX Crew-4 ( Expedition 67 / 68 )
- Website
- samanthacristoforetti .esa .int
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- European Space Agency
- Given name
- Samantha
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Milan
- Employer
- Italian Space Agency
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Native language
- Italian
- Military branch
- Italian Air Force
- Military rank
- captain
- Official website
- avamposto42.esa.int
- Image
- Samantha Cristoforetti official portrait in an EMU spacesuit.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- date of birth
- 1977-04-26
- time in space
- 287562
- name in native language
- Samantha Cristoforetti
- member of
- Expedition 68
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Encyclopedic overview
Samantha Cristoforetti OMRI ( Italian pronunciation: [saˈmanta kristofoˈretti]; born 26 April 1977) is an Italian European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She is the second of two women sent into space by ESA and the first from Italy. Cristoforetti holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut (199 days, 16 hours), and she held the record for the longest single space flight by a woman until this was broken by Peggy Whitson in June 2017, and later by Christina Koch. She took command of ISS Expedition 68 on 28 September 2022.
In December 2021, Politico Europe named her as one of the "dreamers" in its annual list of the 28 most influential people in Europe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samantha Cristoforetti” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.