Samantha Cristoforetti 50 years AirPress, and the Financial Times chose it as one of the 12 women in 2015 – The Messenger

Three astronauts and a minister in the Temple of Hadrian in Piazza di Pietra for the 50 years of the magazine Airpress Paul Mass immediately indicating the route: “Italy, aerospace mission”.
Blue overalls , as is fitting, for the general Roberto Vittori and the captain Samantha Cristoforetti , both Air Force, ESA astronauts waiting to get back into space, and jacket and tie for the veteran of the Air Force and Belgian astronaut, Frank De Winne , head of the training center of the European Space.

International cooperation, development and commercialization of technology, enhancement of Italian excellence and, above all, new goals for space exploration to expand horizons and inspire new generations: this is what they told the three of travelers stars who have walked and are walking paths do not always overlap, but always fascinating.

 In addition to them, took turns on the stage and directed publisher Paul Mass, the defense minister, Roberta Pinotti, the president of the Italian Space Agency, Roberto Battiston, the Chief of the Air Staff, Pasquale Preziosa, the ‘CEO of Thales Alenia Space Italy, Donato Amoroso and the CEO of Telespazio, Luigi Pasquali.

 Vittori, in particular, invited to get used to words like space plane “that no longer belong to science fiction, but this”, while General Precious, to show the new frontier aerospace, said that between now and 2032 traffic aircraft will double making inevitable the use of new aircraft and routes suborbital (up to 100 km altitude): “In the space sector to date we proceeded to jumps, it’s time to be a continuity between space and aeronautics”.

The president of the Italian Space Agency, Roberto Battiston, in his pocket with the recent success of the sixth mission of the rocket launcher Vega and Cygnus cargo which reached the ISS, has announced new orders for the carrier built dall’Avio in Colleferro on behalf of the consortium ELV “to the point that the demands of missions for Vega are even faster than the current capacity of possible realization of carriers.” Words heard directly by the new CEO of Avio, Giulio Ranzo, sitting in the front row. A reality, that of Avio, which remains pending the decision of Finmeccanica, for the moment at 14% positioned in leading aerospace company not only Italian.

 Certainly aerospace tricolor continues to produce important results for Italy. “ The role of industries in the country’s space activities is of great responsibility and we must look to the future with optimism – said Donato Amoroso, CEO of Thales Alenia Space Italy – In all these years we have gathered expertise and international cooperation and space takes about three thousand employees in Italy. The Italian space industry must assemble these experiences and skills and continue tradurl and in high-tech products “.

“ It is said that the market is flat, but instead faces a very aggressive competition because new technologies are increasingly popular and we have to be efficient even in models Business “ highlighted the CEO of Thales Alenia Space Italy, recalling that ” the space economy is a model strong “ development and youth. The historic photo from space of Samantha Cristoforetti in the ISS Dome is beautiful and meaningful because that window on the Universe has been designed and built in Italy. “

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 And thanks to Samantha Cristoforetti, that the Temple of Hadrian told “Futura”, its mission records ISS, came the news that ended in the best way a day dedicated to the 50 years of the world’s aerospace and Airpress Italian: the first Italian astronaut is among the 12 women chosen from Financial Times to illustrate the 2015 cover the first lady Michelle Obama. Double satisfaction for Italy because the group is also the writer Elena Ferrante (Nasty Love, The Days of Abandonment, The daughter obscure) that gave one of his rare interviews. “I grew up in a world where it seemed normal for men (fathers, brothers, boyfriends), had the right to beat you to teach you to be a woman,” she explains. And still “too many women are humiliated every day, and not just symbolically,” he added.
         

             Friday, December 11, 2015, 22:57 – Last Updated: January 1, 01:00
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