Futura 42, Samantha is in space took off the spaceship Soyuz – The Messenger

She smiles, she smiles blessed. Samantha Cristoforetti is flying at 28 thousand kmh to the stars, and not having your arms long enough, should tinker with an absurd extension (like the ones we use to make the hangers in the closet at the top) to press the buttons on the console of the spacecraft Soyuz that you recommend it, with all those lights.
And with those rubber gloves must turn the pages of manuals thin board, written in Russian, to check that everything runs straight between a thousand parameters and coordinates.

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 the mission from launch to the space station on arrival

Yet the phenomenon of Samantha Cistoforetti never stops smiling while flying in orbit.

The first applause roar few seconds after launch, when it was realized that the Soyuz has started again in a perfect way. Auditorium packed Italian Space Agency, in Tor Vergata, have all the thrills and hold their breath until the astronauts Parmitano Luca, Paolo Nespoli and Roberto Vittori, commentators with surprising verve, do sign that went: everything ok.

A long applause, then another when their own in the first live images from the cockpit you see Samantha quiet smile as if he was traveling on a Red Arrow. Instead, explain his three predecessors in the role of an engineer has to assist the Russian commander Shkapletov in all phases of flight.

On the head of the three astronauts, there is also the American Virts, hanging from a rope, dangling the puppet of Frozen: the most futuristic of the instruments onboard. When will begin to float you will understand immediately that the Soyuz is in orbit. It happens after 8 minutes and 45 seconds: the Soyuz has reached 250 km from here tallonerà the space station orbits up to 4 berth, 150 km higher. And the auditorium is unleashed another round of applause: emotional well beyond the limit of the protocol (and lucky) the minister of the Ministry of Education Stefania Giannini, who had proudly pointed out the role of Samantha Cristoforetti of bulldozer space for women.

Satisfied General Pasquale Preziosa, Chief of Air Force, Thomas Reiter, director of programs of manned spaceflight operations and the European Space Agency and Roberto Battiston, president of the European Space Agency. On 2 December in Brussels will host the European Ministerial to decide the future (short funding) of European space programs and on the shoulders of Samantha Cristoforetti also ends the load to continue to demonstrate the high value of the Italian aerospace industry.

A Tor Vergata, while the first Italian astronaut went into orbit and in History, and tension is released: even in the last pictures before the blackout waiting Berth scheduled at 4 Monday, astrosamantha maneuver manuals and extension cords as if it were the most natural thing for her. And it is because, well before becoming a military pilot and astronaut, as a child, up there on the Brenta Dolomites, the already knew that his future would be among the stars.
             
             
                         
         

             Sunday, November 23, 2014, 20:05 – Last Updated: November 24, 0:39
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