Baikonur (Kazakhstan) – Samantha Cristoforetti started: the first Italian astronaut in six hours to reach the International Space Station, where it will remain for six months. It took off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, with a Soyuz rocket shortly after 22 hours Italian. The docking to the ISS is scheduled for 3:53. The launch went perfectly, and after a few minutes the spacecraft went into orbit, opening the solar panels and antennas.
It began like Futura, the mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), the second long-term ( six months), the Italian Space Agency. The first was carried into orbit Luca Parmitano.
Along with Cristoforetti were aboard the Soyuz Commander, Russian Anton Shkaplerov, sitting in the middle seat. To his left and right Cristoforetti the American Terry Virts. The three will return to Earth in May 2015. The ‘shuttle’ took off at 22.01 from the Russian Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Born in Milan, but from Trento and raised in Male (where for the launch was set up a giant screen), Samantha is 34 years old. Military pilot, Air Force captain and engineer, the Italian astronaut will contribute to the performance of all tasks of research, testing and operational maintenance of the space laboratory.
In this mission, the ‘ Italy is the protagonist. Are ten Italian research undertaken.
1) The experiment ‘Drai Brain’, coordinated by the doctor Paolo Zamboni, the Center for Vascular Diseases of the University of Ferrara: must verify the hypothesis that one of the causes of multiple sclerosis may be the narrowing of blood vessels of the head and neck.
2) Wearable monitoring: a shirt equipped with sensors that can measure heart rhythm and breathing during sleep, and portable electronics unit to collect the data.
3 ) The long-awaited machine espresso will want to April, but poterebbe perhaps be the occasion to celebrate the birthday of Samantha Cristoforetti. Astronaut European Space Agency (Esa), born April 26, should have time to use it. The machine was built in Italy, the collaboration between Argotec, Lavazza and Finmeccanica-Selex Es.
4) The 3D printer is all Italian, built by Altran and Thales Alenia Space.
5) surveys will be carried out on the behavior of fluids
5) Techniques for decontamination from bacteria (Vable, University of Tuscia)
6) How are the cells in the absence of weight (Cytospace, Sapienza University of Rome and Italy Kayser)
7) The loss of muscle mass (Bone-Muscke Check, University of Salerno)
8) Nanoparticles will be tested against the ‘osteoporosis test in Born (University of Pavia),
9) The adaptation of the brain to space is studied by Slink (Politecnico di Milano).
online help, how to follow the mission. On the site The disinformatico , the blog of journalist Paul Very active, is output a guide to follow all stages of the mission online. The video streaming on the NASA site , at (Public channel for direct, channel ISS HD Views for images of the International Space Station), HERE for viewing standard and HERE for high definition (starting at 20, Italian time). Video also Asitv.it (Italian Space Agency, from 20.30) and Astronauticast (since launch arrival Station around 3:15 to the entrance to the station in 5 ). Via Twitter disinformatico and astropratica .
To follow the astronauts aboard the Station is Avamposto42.esa.int (also Facebook and Twitter ). The logbook is instead of Astronautinews.it . On Twitter you can also follow all the crew: Samantha Cristoforetti (astrosamantha ), Terry Virts (AstroTerry ) and Anton Shkaplerov (AntonAstrey ). Facebook Cristoforetti is HERE and on Google Plus HERE . Its official page on the website of ESA is Samanthacristoforetti.esa.int . The photos will come out Flickr . “To locate the Space Station over your area,” says The disinformatico “There are NASA Spot the Station NASA SkyWatch Astroviewer.net Twisst Heavens Above N2yo.com . For those amateur I report forecasts listening at Air-Radiorama . It will be possible to pick up transmissions radio with amateur equipment. ”
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