Samantha Cristoforetti wish you a “Merry Christmas” special from ISS – diregiovani

A company extraordinary: that of human space exploration, which is joined to the one conducted by UNICEF to combat child malnutrition in the world.

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“I do not I think businesses are impossible, but only to those extraordinary “. So the Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti renewed the appeal from the Station International Space Station, in support of UNICEF campaign against child malnutrition. “I’m Samantha Cristoforetti and I speak from the International Space Station. I never thought it was an impossible task to get up here because I do not think businesses impossible: only the extraordinary feats. In space, also be able to feed in a healthy way is extraordinary. But c ‘is something much more extraordinary: what UNICEF does every day to save millions of boys and girls from malnutrition. You too can make an extraordinary undertaking: to save a young life “is the appeal that the first Italian woman astronaut launched in a video message in support of #impresastraordinaria, the UNICEF campaign against child malnutrition.

The initiative was made possible thanks to the collaboration of Samantha Cristoforetti, the European Space Agency, of ‘ Italian Space Agency and the Italian Air Force.

Just before leaving for the space, last November 23, Samantha Cristoforetti, with a special tweet from the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) had initiated the #impresastraordinaria. For the occasion, UNICEF Italy has also launched the mini-site http://impresastraordinaria.unicef.it/, where Samantha has also intervened from the ISS.

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Cristoforetti Samantha, 37, selected in 2009 by ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut, is the first Italian to fly in space. During the mission “Futura” ASI (Italian Space Agency), as of November 24, 2014 will live for about six months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), carrying out experiments, research and maintenance in the enormous laboratory orbit 400 kilometers above the Earth, with special attention to the nutritional and health.

Samantha chose to associate his extraordinary feat in space to that that UNICEF, on Earth, leading for decades to counter malnutrition and child mortality in developing countries. This site, which will also animated by tweet that Samantha will send Station is a tribute to those who continue to dream and to build, day after day, companies that make extraordinary human race.

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