Paolo Nespoli will return 60 years in space – Il Sole 24 Ore

History Article

Close

This article was published on July 30, 2015 at 6:59.
The last change is the 30 July 2015 at 10:33.

You Paolo Nespoli, Milanese engineer of 58 years, the next Italian astronaut intended to fly to the station Space International. The announcement will be made shortly by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (Esa). Third time among the stars to the Italian astronaut. The allocation of the new astronaut, said the ASI, “took place in collaboration with NASA as part of the agreement signed between NASA and ASI (MoU) in 1997, thanks to which Italy has provided modules housing logistics, in exchange for flight opportunities and for testing in order to board the Space Station. ”

New mission in May 2017
The new flight opportunities managed by the Italian Space is scheduled for May 2017, ISS Mission 52/53. Italian astronaut involved, which is part of ESA’s astronaut corps, will stay aboard the International Space Station for about six months. But as it was made the shortlist? In addition to Nespoli, the other three Italian ESA astronauts are Samantha Cristoforetti in service, just back from the International Space Station, Luke Parmitano, current commander of the mission in the ocean Neemo 20, and Roberto Vittori. About Me.

Nespoli’s first Italian with a long-term mission
Paolo Nespoli,Astro_paolo, was the first Italian astronaut to stay in space for a long-term mission . Return aboard the ISS with the crew of Expedition 52/53. Milan, 58, has already been twice in the space. Engineer, Nespoli in June 2006 he was assigned to the crew of Space Shuttle mission STS-120 mission dedicated to the construction of the International Space Station. STS-120 was held with great success between October 23 and November 7, 2007. In 2010/2011 has been in space for a long-duration mission, as a member of the crew of Expedition 26/27. Party from the Baikonur cosmodrome December 15, 2010 together with the Russian Soyuz shuttle astronaut American Catherine Coleman and Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, Nespoli has returned to Earth with them in the early morning hours of May 24, 2011, with a soft landing Soyuz capsule in the steppes of Kazakhstan.

AstroSamantha has just returned from space
AstroSamantha has just returned from space station after a mission lasting 199 days, 16 hours and 42 minutes in space. An adventure that made the astronaut record, but who also defeated many stereotypes about women, so much so that for many has been defined as a myth that bury botox and heel 12. The Adventure of the captain of the Air Force Cristoforetti Samantha, 38, the first Italian woman astronaut, began in 2009 when the European Space Agency has selected among 8,500 candidates to join its team of ESA astronauts. AstroSamantha Has traveled over 130 million kilometers in space aboard the International Space Station, the longest journey into orbit made by a woman in the history of mankind. In addition to being the first Italian woman to go into space, now it is the Italian and European astronaut with the most consecutive days in space. Enthusiastic about his space adventure has received from the president of the republic, Sergio Mattarella, the honor of Knight Grand Cross of the “Merit of the Italian Republic”.

© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Permalink