Cristoforetti “Floating weightless, here’s what I miss the most … – The Messenger

Already, even without ever being superheroes like Samantha Cristoforetti, it must be terrible to lose overnight superpowers, like that of floating weightless handling objects and tools also as light as feathers.
SUPER POWERS
“Well, be subject again to gravity – he tells the astronaut in the first interview with the Italian press connected with Houston the headquarters of the Italian Space Tor Vergata – 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. Floating weightless is wonderful. Yes, I regret every time down here. “

To see her, despite the tough rehabilitation, Captain Air Force pilot who learned to fly without wings seems in great shape.

“Telekinesis”

 “This idea of ​​being weightless – still tells the first Italian in orbit – gets inside you and does not go away just yesterday I had to return a phone to a doctor who was on the opposite side of the room and not the narrowly ‘ I did smash on the floor: instinctively I was going to let it float in mid-air and then give him a little push. It ‘s so – as if it were a magic – that you move objects on the space station, but alas on Earth does not work “.

Damn gravity. “And the more you get – says the Cristoforetti – certain parts of your body to struggle again after they have taken a long vacation. Starting from the soles of the feet moving on to the … bottom. And when ever I was sitting in recent months (yes, even in the bathroom you sit on the ISS, ed). “

SCOTTISH SHOWER

 Always because of physical weakness driven primarily by the lower body, the astronaut of the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency has been almost across one of the joys of life on earth more coveted by the tenants of the space station.
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 “I could not wait to take a shower, maybe hot, but I was forced to make me by sitting on a chair that had placed me gently under running water in the Scottish base in which we made a stopover between Kazakhstan and Houston “.

 Adequate, or in line with expectations (and the ability of the flight crew in the kitchen NASA), the dish-prize that is up to each astronaut returning from long missions.

The big salad
 “Yes, the big salad of tuna, nuts and tomatoes, was very good,” he said the still Cristoforetti who gave the idea of ​​being very well especially when he held the point on the key issues of being an astronaut and his mission at the service of science. And the fact that they are well away from his private life, of which he was the guardian iron before becoming a celebrity, let alone now that will spin like a top to represent this and that in every corner of the planet of communication.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

 So no mention of the family who have waiting in Houston, let alone the French boyfriend.

 “We are astronauts and celebrities,” he said a couple of times also reiterating that will almost never her staring at the lineup of its commitments. That, by eye, will misrepresent because now everyone wants, the world record holder of the longest continuous stay in space: 199 days and 7 hours.

“The record? It ‘a result of the mission and prolungamenento the unexpected, I admit, I am not sorry because when he was approaching the date set for the return did not feel quite ready to break away from that world special and wonderful that the ISS “.

In reality what most press, now, is the responsibility of becoming a model for so many young people while indicating, with the best example with the words, a road made of study, effort, sweat. Thanks to the enormous tam tam of social, magnified undoubtedly by the gender issue and also the Cristoforetti never, never stressed, his fame became enormous.

 The president of ASI, Battiston, said the consensus around the Cristoforetti exceed 95%.

 “I can only keep doing what I’ve always done and with maximum effort – said the astronaut – Of course I feel obliged to not betraying any expectations, we astronauts are trained to serve the community, not just the scientific . Then, if even five children or girls decide to groped to do what they could to me I will be very proud. “

The Cristoforetti is catching up quickly, but need at least two weeks just to walk decently after nearly seven months on the space station. Now he spends most of the time in bed or chair alternating gymnastics, medical tests and the drafting of reports on experiments carried out during the mission Futura.