The two-day Turin astronaut records that visited the premises and Altec Tales Alenia Space
It ‘began with a visit to Altec, where he met with the technicians and employees who have contributed to the success Italian on the international Space Station and those engaged ESA ExoMars program, the Turin two days of astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti who then also visited the premises of Thales Alenia Space Italy. “The future is space for Mars, the frontier of the latest studies in the major research centers, such as those in Turin Altec and Thales Alenia Space Italy”. So the Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in Turin met with engineers from both companies have followed its mission, Futura. “It moves me – he said – to see in the flesh the technicians and engineers with whom I spoke by satellite in my six months in orbit.”
Accompanied by the Mayor of Turin, Piero Fassino, the president and CEO of Altec, Fabio Grimaldi and Vincenzo Giorgio, served by the Thales Alenia Space, Donato Amoroso, the president of the Italian Space, Roberto Battiston, and the regional Councillor for productive Activities, Giuseppina De Santis. the Italian astronaut who holds the record of permanence in space for a woman, visited the pavilion dedicated to the simulation of the soil of Mars and of the ExoMars mission control room, where there is Avionic Test Bench instrumentation that will be used in the mission on the red planet. The first phase of the mission of March 14, the second is expected in 2018. More than a billion and 200 million euro, the total cost.
“For now – said Cristoforetti – send back the robots but the goal remains of this century remains arrive on Mars and we hope it can be done in the first half of the century. ” Tonight at SERMIG astronaut will meet with citizens and will be part of the jury that will select the digital artwork of next Share Festival.
- Topics:
- Mars
- view
- Starring:
- samantaha Cristoforetti
March 3, 2016 – Updated the