AstroSamantha: “I miss flying in freedom and lightness” – ladigetto.it

First video-conference link from Cristoforetti in Houston just four days after returning to Earth

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“I missing fly in freedom and lightness, but life on the ISS is already beginning to seem like a dream. “
These are the words with which Samantha Cristoforetti described the first impressions of the return to Earth, during her first video-conference after landing last Thursday.
Connected to the center of NASA in Houston, Sam has appeared smiling and in good shape, ready to answer the many questions that have turned the Italian journalists gathered the ASI headquarters in Rome.
“We are happy to have you with us again, welcome back to Earth,” he said, opening the link in salute, the ASI president Roberto Battiston, who on the stage of ASI He had also near Colonel Piero Serra – Head Office Space Policy of the General Staff of the Air Force – and Fulvio Drigani, ESA’s head of communications in Italy.
Battiston alsoAstroSamantha port to the greetings of the Minister of Defense Roberta Pinotti, absent because visiting the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget.

To those who asked how he deals with daily life after seven months in weightlessness Samantha replied, “Well, to be again subject to gravity is not only quite tiring, but also makes me regret what is lacking most in these early days of Earth after nearly seven months in orbit ‘.
Just four days after returning, Sam is catching up fast physical condition. But the serve still several weeks before you can resume at full speed its commitments.
The first goal is to regain a sense of balance and weight, then move on to the real rehabilitation.
Immediately after Cristoforetti will be involved in the drafting of reports on the activities of the nine experiments carried aboard the Space Station.

It was in this regard Samantha said: “I lent my hands and My eyes to science, I served science. Now I do a little ‘guinea pig and certainly the research I’ve conducted may have repercussions for the health and lives of people on Earth. “
Also the inevitable question about the public role of the astronaut given the huge success on various social networks.
“The astronaut does celebrity job, stay on the ISS is an exceptional experience in mission over’ll communication activities with the post flight tour. But I’m sure – he wanted to emphasize – that this experience of media will end. “
Samantha was the seventh Italian astronaut to go into space and the fifth to set foot on ISSLa his mission began at 22:01 of November 23, 2014 . With its 200 days in orbit, thus he has beaten two records: one ESA astronaut with more consecutive days in space on a single mission and one of the most consecutive weeks in orbit for a woman.

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