Lunigiana, December 11, 2014 – ASTRO-SAMANTHA will hello from the International Space Station this evening at 18 when it will race over Tuscany and Romagna low coming from Gibraltar with a route to the east. In particular for the area of Massa-La Spezia on artificial satellite will be visible to the naked eye from 18 hours, 3 minutes and 11 seconds up to 18 hours, 7 minutes and 50 seconds. Better with a telescope. The station is a little bigger than a football field, (72 x 108 meters) and orbits the Earth at a distance between 280 and 460 km at an average speed of 27743.8 km times. Every day full 15.7 orbits and in just over 90 minutes each. And that today is one of many steps on Italy not to be missed, to be able to tell the grandkids’ I saw ‘Space Odyssey’. But in reality, not the movies. ” The mission Expedition 4 which is part of the astronaut blue kicked off Sunday, November 23 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in the steppes of Kazakhstan. For she has lifted the curtain on the stage with a view of interstellar space. And tonight all with the nose observing the sky in the direction southwest. The ISS will be dressed as a star spreading a reddish color (after having touched Mars!), Cross the sky mirrored in the white marble of the Apuan Alps and then fade away in the eastern disappearing in the shadow of the Earth. I wonder if that glow that distinguish normal from Corsica appear to Samantha “alien” as he called “the blaze of orange light, vivid, warm” of coming up with the ISS Soyuz docking. An expression that immediately ufologists have ridden, but proved wrong in their ruminations. “But as a UFO? I ran an exclamation for the beauty of the light! “, Said on his blog Outpost 42. Samantha, 37, Air Force Pilot-engineer and European Space Agency astronaut, we will go over the head with his traveling companions. A small tribe international will remain in orbit until May. To study what? It ‘the same Samantha to tell us in his blog: “Five projects will be devoted to the study of various aspects of human physiology under conditions of weightlessness, will conduct two biological analysis of cell samples taken in microgravity.” It’s called “Futura” this all-Italian project and decide the name were fans of space themes through a competition.
BUT HOW Samantha lives everyday extraterrestrial. “To stay fit cereals and gymnastics are essential,” he writes. But beyond the food and technological daily occupations there is also space for reading. Samantha has brought some book: “Palomar” by Italo Calvino, “Pilote de guerre” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and two publications for children Gianni Rodari: “Agent X.99: stories and verses from space” and “Journeys John of idlers. ” And then a mini book had printed on purpose 3 inches square: a collection of poems and phrases including those of “Ulysses” by Alfred Tennyson. The astronaut has not forgotten the music and launched a competition to choose the song that will be awake to its dawns: “Volare” by Domenico Modugno, “The World”, Jimmy Fontana, “Futura” by Lucio Dalla, “L ‘Neverland “of Edward Jackson,” Out of sight of Gianna Nann ini are in pole position. With these flavors pop the now pontremolese Sugar has done in recent days the best wishes for the mission in uplink from the tour of Monaco. And we are launching our message to Samantha: while you question on the playlist, Samantha (Italian icon of our talent that already was by Michelangelo), from there nell’iperuranio, make us a photo. And lovely pics ticket to obliterate space to reach you as soon as possible.
Natalino Benacci
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