Space, Paolo Nespoli after Samantha and Luke Cristoforetti Parmitano, he will be the next Italian in orbit – The Messenger

Paolo Nespoli not bat an eyelid: “What will never be those 1400 years light from the Earth to the sister planet just identified: let young people can only dream about something that may seem impossible now,” says neighbor Italian astronaut expert mission impossible proudly showing the flag and the Italian Space Agency’s logo on the shirt he wore in his first space mission in 2007. It will have turned 60 when he will return for the third time in space: the announcement of the mission of 2017 on the International Space Station (ISS) took place from the ASI headquarters where these days alternate astronauts and Raoul Bova, who stars in a TV drama set in blocks of Tor Vergata.

In great form (the reporters jumped yesterday to reach the seats of the auditorium as Castelnuovo for oil Heart), Nespoli has lost count of the “young days” lived in 58 springs: the one in Lebanon in 1982 to that of His entry into the world of astronauts in 1991 that his promotion to real astronaut in 1998 that his first mission with the Shuttle after nine years. At that finally everyday family: 18 months ago with his wife Aleksandra Russian celebrated the birth of Louis Maximilian who made the happiness of her sister Sophia, six years.

“I was just wondering MI – tells still the largest Army – for the umpteenth time what to do great when last year the president of ASI Battiston contacted me to tell me of this hypothesis of the new mission. “

The name former paratrooper “Col Moschini”, already among the stars in 2007 and 2011, in fact circulated by quqalche month. Even so, going by exclusion, candidates were reduced more and more: Samantha Cristoforetti has just returned, Roberto Vittori was assigned to the post of military adviser to the Italian embassy in the United States. Luca Parmitano, these days at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean engaged in mission Neemo looking at Mars, could have been chosen because in 2017 will have passed at least two of the end of his first trip to orbit, but its age: 40 years. Just over half of John Glenn, the legendary hero of the epic Apollo then went into orbit 77 years. Nespoli sixty instead become European with more spring in space.

“It seems very nice – he says – to have this new opportunity to put at the service of ASI, the European Space Agency and NASA ‘s experience in recent years “.

Of course, at this point, not only will the young ones to be inspired by the mission of 2017

A great communicator, first surfer to harness the power of social like Twitter then exploded with his successors and Parmitano Cristoforetti, Major born in Milan is the ultimate confirmation of results obtained by force of will.

 Discarded in a competition to become the first astronaut in 1991 but still hired as technical trainer, then there succeeded in 1998. And then there’s her story “Earth” that crosses also those of General Franco Angioni and Oriana Fallaci in Lebanon . Man of confidence of the head of the first military contingent abroad in 1982 in Lebanon, Nespoli knew sent the European Championship in the troubled context win their trust and esteem. To the point that many traits of the protagonist of Inshallah can be traced to Nespoli. And it was Fallaci that pushed the sergeant paratrooper 25 years groped to realize his childhood dream, becoming an astronaut. Enterprise businesses for someone like him who’s in them then reached into the area that was after the other to achieve the very high technical skills to participate in the selection.

 First mission with the Shuttle in 2007, according with the Soyuz in 2011 when he remained in orbit 174 days creating a record that only Cristoforetti has taken away the last weeks.
             
             
                         
         

             Thursday, July 30, 2015, 08:59 – Last Updated: 22:12
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