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  • 2019/20 Moon Camp winners webinar with ESA astronauts

    2019/20 Moon Camp winners webinar with ESA astronauts

    ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Luca Parmitano join the 2019/20 Moon Camp Challenge winning teams for a 1-hour webinar. Connecting from all over the world, the teams have their questions answered live by the ESA astronauts.

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  • Dove dormono gli astronauti?

    Dove dormono gli astronauti?

    Unitevi all’astronauta ESA Samantha Cristoforetti per una visita guidata agli alloggi dell’equipaggio della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale – la camera da letto.

    Dopo una giornata di lavoro ad eseguire esperimenti e a mantenere attivo il centro di ricerca in microgravità, gli astronauti possono ritirarsi nel proprio alloggio privato, che non è più grande di un un camerino. In questo piccolo spazio possono riporre oggetti personali, utilizzare un laptop per navigare in Internet e addormentarsi fluttuando nel proprio sacco a pelo.

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    English version here: https://youtu.be/YlUzva6lRQQ

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  • Astronaut coffee break: let’s talk landing

    Astronaut coffee break: let’s talk landing

    Take a break with ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst, Samantha Cristoforetti, Luca Parmitano and Thomas Pesquet as they discuss living and working in space. In this video, our astronauts talk about their experiences of landing in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft upon returning from the International Space Station.

    During a shared coffee break, Luca compares his first landing to his most recent landing – the second of which he found much softer than the first. Thomas finds humour in his experience of landing horizontally, while Alex describes a particularly high gravitational load on his return to Earth.

    This clip is part of a series of four filmed in February 2020, following Luca’s return from the ISS mission on 6 February. It was filmed in the crew quarters of the German Aerospace Center DLR’s :envihab facility next to ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.

    For more about Luca’s Beyond mission and other ESA astronaut-related content, visit the Exploration blog: https://blogs.esa.int/exploration/

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  • Visita alla toilette della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale

    Visita alla toilette della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale

    L’astronauta dell’ESA Samantha Cristoforetti ci mostra come usare la parte meno affascinante, ma di cui spesso si chiede, della vita sulla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale: il bagno.

    Un ventola crea aspirazione per evitare cattivi odori e il galleggiamento dei rifiuti. I rifiuti solidi vengono immagazzinati e caricati sulle navette cargo che bruciano quando il veicolo spaziale lascia la Stazione Spaziale. L’urina dell’astronauta viene riciclata – in acqua potabile.

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    English version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-65mBQ7s_Q

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  • #SpaceConnectsUs live online event | Timestamps in the description

    #SpaceConnectsUs live online event | Timestamps in the description

    🇳🇱Jump to the Dutch section: 0:57:50
    🇩🇪Jump to the German section: 1:57:57
    🇮🇹Jump to the Italian section: 2:57:44
    🇫🇷Jump to the French section: 3:57:50
    🇬🇧Jump to the English section: 4:58:41

    Asteroid Day and the European Space Agency connected Europe and the world with astronauts, scientists and performers bringing a message of hope and support for those facing the global Coronavirus crisis.

    This online programme was broadcast sequentially in Dutch, German, Italian, French and English to inspire armchair explorers everywhere.

    Featuring
    André Kuipers, Frank De Winne, Matthias Maurer, Alexander Gerst, Thomas Reiter, Samantha Cristoforetti, Jean-François Clervoy, Thomas Pesquet, Timothy Peake, Rusty Schweickart, Nicole Stott, Tom Jones, Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, Anousheh Ansari

    Special guests
    Gianluca Masi, Jan Wörner, Mayim Bialik, Murad Osmann, Alison Pill, Paulina Chávez, Angélique Kidjo, Grig Richters

    Moderators
    Sander Koenen, Ranga Yogeshwar, Rossella Panarese, Bruce Benamran, Brian Cox

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  • Una visita ai servizi igienici della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale

    Una visita ai servizi igienici della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale

    Unitevi all’astronauta ESA Samantha Cristoforetti mentre ci mostra come si lavano gli astronauti a bordo della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale.

    Dalla saponetta all’acqua e al tagliarsi le unghie, tutto è diverso nello spazio. Samantha ci mostra il suo modo di ‘fare la doccia’ che dipende da quanto tempo ha a disposizione.

    Gli astronauti sulla Stazione Spaziale dedicano il maggior tempo possibile alla scienza. Durante la sua settimana lavorativa di 40 ore, Samantha ha eseguito molti esperimenti dell’Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ASI e dell’ESA, e partecipato ad ancora più esperimenti degli scienziati di tutto il mondo.

    Samantha ha vissuto e lavorato a bordo della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale come membro dell’equipaggio di sei delle Spedizioni 42 e 43. Potete rivedere la sua missione Futura nelle pagine dedicate http://samanthacristoforetti.esa.int.

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  • Fit for space – Soyuz training

    Fit for space – Soyuz training

    In the first episode of our ‘Fit for space’ training series, ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Luca Parmitano share how crewmembers prepare for their journey to the International Space Station in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

    Training for the critical moments of Soyuz spaceflight – launch, ascent, docking and landing – take place at Roscosmos’ Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Here, astronauts use sophisticated Soyuz simulators to practice procedures and respond to emergency situations.

    The Soyuz simulators at GCTC are designed to act and be operated in exactly the same way as the spacecraft itself. Astronauts must demonstrate their proficiency in manually controlling the Soyuz to prepare for the unlikely event that automated and ground-based operations fail.

    They also prepare for emergency events that could occur onboard the International Space Station itself.

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  • Message from ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti

    Message from ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti

    Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, speaking from the European Astronaut Centre near Cologne in Germany, has a message of thanks to all those who’ve entered our Lunar 3D printing competition so far. A new lunar analogue test facility, called Luna for short, is currently being set up at EAC to test the technologies and techniques needed for any future Moon base – with 3D printing high on the list. And a team ESA’s technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is overseeing a project to research in detail how 3D printing could be used in such a Moon base. We’re also interested in the human factor: what would you 3D print to make the Moon feel like home? That’s why we’re crowdsourcing your ideas through this competition. The closing date is 23 September 2018.

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  • The European Space Agency Explained

    The European Space Agency Explained

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    When people think about the big players of the space industry, they don’t tend to think about Europe. But believe it or not the European Space Agency or ESA has the second highest budget out of any space agency. So what are they doing with all that money?

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  • New training for ESA astronauts

    New training for ESA astronauts

    In Bonn, Germany, two ESA astronauts recently went through a brand new training programme which could be very useful in case of no contact with the ground or when communication might be delayed.

    Samantha Cristoferetti and Matthias Maurer were taught basic mechanical, electronic, electrical and pneumatic skills and how to use these skills to troubleshoot their equipment in space.

    This new training, commissioned by ESA, has been developed by the Dr. Reinold-Hagen Foundation and by Space Application Services.

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    http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/The_challenges_of_astronaut_training

  • ESA and Chinese astronauts train together

    ESA and Chinese astronauts train together

    ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Matthias Maurer joined Chinese astronauts last month for nine days of sea survival training off China’s coastal city of Yantai.

    This is the first time ESA astronauts have trained in China and stems from the 2015 agreement to boost collaboration between ESA and China Manned Space Agency, with the goal of flying European astronauts on the Chinese space station from 2022.

    This video, filmed by the Astronaut Center of China, shows the first joint training, with interviews of ESA participants in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

    Footage credit: ACC (Astronaut Center of China)

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  • Space Station 360: Harmony (Node 2)

    Space Station 360: Harmony (Node 2)

    Explore the International Space Station’s Harmony module in this full panorama with your mobile phone or VR headset.

    This 360° panorama lets you explore the International Space Station’s fifth module, Harmony. It was launched on 23 October 2007 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery to link the Columbus, Kibo and Destiny laboratories.

    Harmony was developed for NASA under an ESA contract with European industry. Its structure is based on that of the Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules and the Europe’s Columbus.

    Explore Harmony in YouTube, Flickr or Facebook format with your mobile phone and virtual-reality headset, or take the full tour including all Space Station modules with videos and extra information below. We will release a new Space Station module in 360° every week on Thursday.

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  • Space Station 360: Zarya

    Space Station 360: Zarya

    Explore the Space Station’s first module with your mobile phone or virtual-reality headset

    This 360° video allows you to explore the International Space Station’s first module, Zarya. Launched on 20 November 1998, it was joined three weeks later by the US Unity module. Also known as the Functional Cargo Block, the module is now mainly used for storage.

    ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took the pictures to form these images in June 2015 at the end of her 199-day Futura mission.

    Explore this module in Flickr, Facebook or Youtube format with your mobile phone or take the full International Space Station tour on the ESA website with videos and extra information.

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  • ESA – Space to Relax / Fly with Samantha to…

    ESA – Space to Relax / Fly with Samantha to…

    ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti photographs stunning Earth images of Lufthansa worldwide destinations during her Futura mission onboard the ISS. An ESA for Lufthansa inflight film.

    Music by Jeff Woodall.

    Images: ESA/NASA.

  • Soyuz TMA-15M landing – welcoming ceremony

    Soyuz TMA-15M landing – welcoming ceremony

    ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft 11 June 2015.

    Shortly after landing the crew were welcomed back to Earth in a traditional Kazakh ceremony held for all astronauts who return from space on a Soyuz spacecraft.

  • Intervista con Samantha dopo l’atterraggio

    Intervista con Samantha dopo l’atterraggio

    Intervista con l’astronauta dell’ESA Samantha Cristoforetti, nelle prime
    ore dell’11 giugno, poco dopo l’atterraggio nelle steppe del Kazakistan.

    Samantha, insieme al comandante russo Anton Shkaplerov ed all’astronauta della NASA Terry Virts, è atterrata alle 13:44 GMT (15:44 CEST), con la stessa navicella Soyuz TMA-15M che il 23 novembre li aveva portati sulla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale.

  • Interview with Samantha after landing

    Interview with Samantha after landing

    Interview with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti shortly after returning from a six and a half month stay on the International Space Station.

    Samantha, together with Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Terry Virts, landed with their the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft in the Kazakh steppe at 15:44 CEST (13:44 GMT) on 11 June 2015.

  • Soyuz TMA-15M landing – highlights

    Soyuz TMA-15M landing – highlights

    ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft 11 June 2015. They left the International Space Station at 10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.

    Soyuz TMA-15M braked from the Station’s cruising speed of almost 28 800 km/h and entered the atmosphere six hours later. The small descent module separated as planned and parachutes deployed to slow the vehicle down even more.

    The module fired retrorockets moments before landing and springs in the moulded seats reduced the impact of hitting the steppe at 13:44 GMT. Teams were on hand within minutes to help them out.

  • Where do astronauts sleep?

    Where do astronauts sleep?

    Join ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti for a guided tour of the International Space Station’s crew quarters – the bedroom.

    After a day’s work running experiments and maintaining the weightless research centre astronauts can retreat to their private quarters that is no larger than a changing room. In this small space they can store personal items, use a laptop for internet and float to sleep in their sleeping bag.

    Find out more about Samantha’s Futura mission here: http://www.esa.int/futura

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  • Cucinare nello spazio: riso integrale con pollo alla curcuma

    Cucinare nello spazio: riso integrale con pollo alla curcuma

    L’astronauta dell’ESA Samantha Cristoforetti sta attualmente vivendo e lavorando a bordo della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale per la missione di lunga durata dell’ASI “Futura”. Vivendo nello spazio a centinaia di km dalla Terra e da casa il cibo è uno degli aspetti fondamentali per un astronauta, anche dal punto di vista psicologico; per questo motivo gli è concesso portare con loro una certa quantità del cosiddetto “bonus food”: piatti e ingredienti di loro scelta che ricordino i loro gusti e i sapori di casa. Abbiamo chiesto a Samantha di mostrarci come riesce a cucinare in microgravità uno di questi piatti: del pollo alla curcuma con riso integrale e piselli.

  • Cooking in space: whole red rice and turmeric chicken

    Cooking in space: whole red rice and turmeric chicken

    ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is currently living on board the International Space Station for her long duration mission Futura. Food is an important item in space, also on the psychological side; that’s why astronauts are allowed a certain quantity of the so-called “bonus food” of their choice that reminds them of their home cooking tastes. We asked Samantha to show us how she manages to cook one of her bonus food recipes in microgravity: whole red rice with peas and chicken turmeric.

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  • Cooking in space: mackerel, quinoa and leek cream tortilla

    Cooking in space: mackerel, quinoa and leek cream tortilla

    ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is currently living on board the International Space Station for her long duration mission Futura. Food is an important item in space, also on the psychological side; that’s why astronauts are allowed a certain quantity of the so-called “bonus food” of their choice that reminds them of their home cooking tastes. We asked Samantha to show us how she manages to cook one of her bonus food recipes in microgravity: a quinoa salad with dried tomatoes, mackerel and leek cream, all wrapped in a warm tortilla.

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  • Towel day on the International Space Station

    Towel day on the International Space Station

    Don’t panic! This is the story of a book, a book called The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a wholly remarkable book.

    ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti reads from Douglas Adam’s “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” for towel day from the European laboratory Columbus on the International Space Station.

    The Guide has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

    To all you froods on the mostly harmless planet Earth, happy towel day!

    Towel Day is an annual celebration on 25 May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams when fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour.

  • Filastrocche dallo spazio: Samantha legge “Il pianeta di cioccolato”

    Filastrocche dallo spazio: Samantha legge “Il pianeta di cioccolato”

    Fra i libri che l’astronauta Samantha Cristoforetti ha portato a bordo della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale c’è anche “I Viaggi di Giovannino Perdigiorno” di Gianni Rodari.

    Sono tante le filastrocche di questa raccolta e Samantha ha deciso di leggerne alcune iniziando questa serie di letture spaziali da “Il pianeta di cioccolato”. Buon ascolto… dallo spazio!

  • Rhymes from space: Samantha reads Gianni Rodari (in Russian)

    Rhymes from space: Samantha reads Gianni Rodari (in Russian)

    Among the books that ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has brought on board the International Space Station there is also the collection of rhymes “I viaggi di Giovannino Perdigiorno” from the famous Italian children’s author Gianni Rodari.

    Rodari is also famous in Russia; in this video Samantha reads a Russian version of the story “Il pianeta di cioccolato” (The planet made of chocolate).

    Tuck into your bed and… enjoy listening!

  • Timelapse: Aurora borealis

    Timelapse: Aurora borealis

    Still images taken by ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the International Space Station were joined together to create this timelapse.

    The astronauts on the Space Station spend as much time as possible on science. During her 40-hour working week Samantha runs many experiments from Italy’s ASI space agency and ESA, and takes part in even more from scientists all over the world.

    Samantha is living and working on board the International Space Station as part of the six-strong Expedition 42 and 43 crew. Follow her Futura mission at http://samanthacristoforetti.esa.int.

  • Schedule changes for space station traffic on This Week @NASA

    Schedule changes for space station traffic on This Week @NASA

    NASA and its international partners are making changes to the International Space Station’s schedule of arriving and departing spacecraft, following the Russian Federal Space Agency’s preliminary findings on its recent loss of the Progress 59 cargo craft. Exact dates will be announced in the coming weeks, with a Roscosmos update about the Progress 59 investigation expected May 22. The schedule adjustments mean NASA’s Terry Virts and Expedition 43 crewmates, Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA and Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov – now will return to Earth in June instead of May. NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, who is conducting pre-flight training in Russia with the other members of Expedition 44, now will launch to the station in July. Also, Small satellite launch services, Latest images of Ceres, Europa’s sea salt? Antarctica Ice Shelf Nearing Its Final Act and No major U.S. hurricanes in nine years!

  • International Space Station toilet tour

    International Space Station toilet tour

    ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti shows how to use the most unglamorous but often asked-about part of living on the International Space Station: the toilet.

    A fan creates suction to avoid smells and floating waste. Solid waste is stored and put in cargo ferries to burn up when the spacecraft leaves the Space Station. The astronaut urine is recycled – into drinking water.

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  • International Space Station bathroom tour

    International Space Station bathroom tour

    Join ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti as she shows how astronauts on the International Space Station keep clean.

    From soap to water and cutting your nails, everything is different in space. Samantha demonstrates her ways to ‘shower’ depending on how much time she has.

    The astronauts on the Space Station spend as much time as possible on science. During her 40-hour working week Samantha runs many experiments from Italy’s ASI space agency and ESA, and takes part in even more from scientists all over the world.

    Samantha is living and working on board the International Space Station as part of the six-strong Expedition 42 and 43 crew. Follow her Futura mission at http://samanthacristoforetti.esa.int.

  • Futura: Mission wrap-up

    Futura: Mission wrap-up

    ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, from Italy, will shortly be ending her long-duration stay onboard the International Space Station. Launched in November 2014, the Futura mission is the result of a special agreement between NASA and the Italian Space Agency ASI.

    During her time in orbit Samantha Cristoforetti has undergone an intensive programme of scientific research, educational and maintenance activities, as well as overseeing the undocking of ESA’s fifth – and last – Automated Transfer Vehicle.

  • Barycentric balls in space – classroom demonstration video, VP07b

    Barycentric balls in space – classroom demonstration video, VP07b

    This video, part of a new series of ESA teaching resources called ‘Teach with space’, shows an experiment performed by ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the International Space Station demonstrating the concept of a barycentre, or centre of mass, freefall and how objects in orbit around each other move.

  • Samantha’s cool Space Station science

    Samantha’s cool Space Station science

    ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti running experiments in weightlessness during her Futura mission for scientists from all over the world. The International Space Station offers three state-of-the-art laboratories where research can be done without gravity. The European Columbus laboratory, the Japanese Kibo and the American Destiny module offer facilities for physics, biology, geophysics and medicine.

    Samantha’s 40-hour work week is devoted to science and maintaining the weightless research centre. This video gives a fast-track impression of some of the experiments she worked on. In quick succession we see Samantha working on: exercise machine ARED, measuring her body mass, the robotic droids SPHERES, ESA’s microgravity glovebox, muscle-measurement machine MARES, centrifuge-incubator Kubik, Biolab, Materials Science Laboratory and ejecting miniature satellites called Cubesats into space.

    Read more about her science on the Futura website: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Futura/Space_Station_Science

    Follow Samantha via http://samanthacristoforetti.esa.int/

  • Space snack time with Samantha Cristoforetti

    Space snack time with Samantha Cristoforetti

    The astronauts on board the International Space Station get hungry from time to time during their long day of work in microgravity. We asked Samantha Cristoforetti, ESA astronaut on board the ISS for the Futura mission, to tell us about the kind of healthy snack she likes to eat during her breaks.

  • Una merenda sana nello spazio

    Una merenda sana nello spazio

    Anche a bordo della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale gli astronauti hanno ogni tanto bisogno di una pausa tra esperimenti, esercizio fisico e lavori di manutenzione. Samantha Cristoforetti, astronauta dell’Agenzia Spaziale Europea in missione per l’Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, ci mostra qualche esempio di uno snack sano in microgravitá.

  • Italy to Indian Ocean

    Italy to Indian Ocean

    Similar to ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti’s night timelapse over Italy and Egypt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgw36RCQPvM) but taken during the day, this video takes you on a 30-second journey over Italy, passing Greece while flying over the Mediterranean Sea to follow the Nile and finish at the Indian Ocean.

    Looking out from the International Space Station’s Cupola observatory while circling Earth at speeds of 28 800 km/h, the 5500 km flight took Samantha around 12 minutes. Images from a Space Station camera were joined together to create this video and make the flight seem even faster.

    The astronauts on the Space Station spend as much time as possible on science. During her 40-hour working week Samantha runs many experiments from Italy’s ASI space agency and ESA, and takes part in even more from scientists all over the world.

    Samantha is living and working on board the International Space Station as part of the six-strong Expedition 42 and 43 crew. Follow her Futura mission at http://samanthacristoforetti.esa.int.

  • Space food and the good side of lipid fat

    Space food and the good side of lipid fat

    We could call them the good, the bad and the ugly! No, we are not talking of spaghetti westerns… Instead, we are talking about a type of fat called lipids. Often we speak badly about them, but some are essential to our health as they reduce chronic inflammation, help lower ‘bad’ cholesterol – LDL – and are a valuable aid in the prevention of cardiovascular disease.

    We asked Samantha Cristoforetti, ESA astronaut on board of the International Space Station for the Futura mission, to tell us about which king of healthy fats she and the other astronauts can enjoy while on orbit.

  • Il buono dei lipidi nel menu della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale

    Il buono dei lipidi nel menu della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale

    Potremmo chiamarli il buono, il brutto e il cattivo! No, non stiamo parlando di spaghetti-western ma di lipidi. Spesso se ne parla male ma alcuni tipi di grassi sono essenziali per la nostra salute, sulla Terra come anche a bordo della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale. Abbiamo chiesto a Samantha Cristoforetti, astronauta ESA in missione per l’Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, di mostrarci come questi “lipidi buoni” siano presenti nel cibo spaziale che lei e gli altri astroanuti hanno a disposizione mentre sono in orbita.

  • Allenarsi nello spazio con Samantha Cristoforetti!

    Allenarsi nello spazio con Samantha Cristoforetti!

    L’astronauta ESA Samantha Cristoforetti, attualmente sulla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale per la missione Futura dell’Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, ci mostra come funziona la “palestra spaziale” iniziando da ARED, l’Advanced Resistive Exercise Device.

  • Happy New Year from the ISS (English)

    Happy New Year from the ISS (English)

    New Year greeting from ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and her crewmates, NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts, who are currently living and working on board the International Space Station as part of the Expedition 42 crew.

    Greeting in Italian: http://youtu.be/ILZu55e8QVM

    Connect with Samantha: http://samanthacristoforetti.esa.int/

  • Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft transfer and liftoff

    Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft transfer and liftoff

    This timelapse video shows the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft during transfer from the MIK 40 integration facility to Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 31, as well as the launch on 23 November 2014 with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and her crewmates to the International Space Station where they will live and work for five months.

    With Samantha are Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Terry Virts. All three are part of the Station’s Expedition 42/43 crew.

    On this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy’s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.

    Directed by Stephane Corvaja, ESA
    Edited by Manuel Pedoussaut, Zetapress
    Music: MZB