Follow the direct (from 8.30 Italian)
THE TABLE OF RETURN (ITALIAN TIME)
8.30 Home Direct greetings astronauts on NASA TV
8.55 Closing door Soyuz
12.20 Separation of Soyuz from the station
14:51 hours Turning back
15:18 hours Separation module Soyuz
Opening hours 15:28 Parachute
15:43 hours landing in Kazakhstan
(Then checkups and immediate boarding to Houston for Cristoforetti and American astronaut Terry Virts)
The RECORD
It ‘so full of records and glory, the first Italian astronaut, who after 200 days in space should weigh a ton, and instead will really sincere and light modesty that in the coming days and months ahead will repeat that “did only his duty and that he feels privileged to have been able to represent Italy and Europe and for his dream of a child raised in the mountains of Trentino, so close to the stars “.
With complicity of nearly four extra weeks of mission (the agency Roscomos wanted to be safe after the debacle of the shuttle cargo), Samantha Cristoforetti has had a string of impressive record, even one world (strange, it says the world yet we are out of this world ): no astronaut had debuted with 199 days and 7 hours of mission, beat the four-day American Sunita Williams. This is even absolute primacy for European astronauts (males and females), with greetings to Paolo Nespoli and Luca Parmitano, proud of my colleague. If you then click on the necessary Astronautinews.it found the rosary and other subrecords really stellar record of thirty selected Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency.
The record generally, the first Italian etc. and so, she never cared about, indeed, not like just that this be emphasized that have actually done systematically in recent months even ministers, prime ministers, presidents and generals during videocollegamenti. Kindness, God forbid, but has never been the focus of the mission of bi-aerospace engineer and pilot Captain Cristoforetti top gun, always in front of everyone, male and female, Italian and foreign, in all the courses followed in the civil and military his career. And the rest was a matter throughout Italy, that she was the first of the 58 astronauts and cosmonauts with the flag sewn on the suit.
THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
What matters most of all is to convey the importance of space missions to accelerate progress in dozens of fields of science and technology, starting with the medicine. Missions expensive, very expensive, but they do earn in an exponential investments. How many lives have been saved worldwide thanks to defibrillators, designed for astronauts? How many will be saved machinery, portable ultrasound, tested ISS?
Probably, indeed, for sure, dodge is, personally I would not even be an example for others, but for this it has become in a perhaps never so strong compared with six astronauts Italian that preceded it.
She had to be special indeed guaranteed Luca Parmitano, the last Italian before her to climb to the stars, the first Italian to make a spacewalk, an ace and a great popularizer of heaven: “I Phenomenon? Wait and you will see Samantha, is a thousand times better than me. “
So the Cristoforetti, increasingly self-confident in telling experiments and life on board the ISS, but especially through the example (leading by example, they say, is not it?), actually it became a model for many Italians, beginning with the youngest. Yes, vabbeh, also for cutting hair (fur hat to Cristoforetti) asked to hairdressers from all over Italy, because of an experiment cardiovascular activity, one on aging bones and another to improve the yield of fuels or life of bacteria useful to agriculture, there can also be the scene – very successful – cutting hair in orbit. And the coffee break Isspresso, actually an advanced test on fluid behavior.
Cristoforetti now is synonymous with commitment, perseverance, sacrifice, difficult choices to get to goals reserved for the very few who, obstacle after obstacle , sweating and studying, achieve goals that allow the world to progress.
With more excitement, maybe not all share but does the same, to take with each photo (almost three thousand), each tweet , each video up there in orbit, such as when he told his first face-to-face with the space station flooded by Sun in the home page of his diary in orbit: “Wow, wow, wow,” because it is normal that the first time you are missing the words.
About then he criticized – including some guru of TV – for his show (“Pure in Sanremo, ‘is Cristoforetti”) was wrong aims: first could change the channel and then are never the astronauts who run their “appearances”. Are the astronauts, for months squeezed inside a motor home and struggling with an agenda scientific grueling, taking off space for a little rest and to be available to as many links as possible with schools and universities because the demands of “talk to the space station “never end, although not news.
FAMILY
Following the return with bated breath will be many but none as much as the parents of Samantha, former hoteliers Male, Sergio and Antonella. Then his brother Jonathan, who works in the US. And the boyfriend Lionel Ferra, trainer for astronauts in Cologne. I wonder if the latter will remake the same question (“What is the meaning of life?”) That had turned from Baikonur Cosmodrome once Samantha had reached the ISS on November 24 last year. Perhaps the answer (“42″, the Manual of galactic travelers “cult book of the captain) could now be more comprehensive, although it is said that he and Samantha him to come to tell.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015, 16:13 – Last Updated: June 11, 2:10
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