He lost count of the young days are a veteran of life terrestrial and ultraterrestrial as Nespoli, who for six months from May 2017 will be the next Italian space: 35 years later, in short, have helped, by massive paratrooper sergeant’s raider Col Moschin, General Franco Angioni to bring peace into the hell of Lebanon, during the first military mission outside Italy since the Second World War.
ADVENTURE
An adventure which by itself already enough to fill a life or a novel of those you’re sorry when you feel between your fingers approaching the last pages. In fact, it ended up really Nespoli inside a book epic: many of the traits of the character of Angelo Inshallah Oriana Fallaci in 1990 are attributable to him, that just Envoy European Championship was driven to realize the dream child of becoming an astronaut. Dream, in fact, far as the sister planet K452b for a soldier who at the time was neither an engineer or pilot, and then burned the stages of studying and training without breaks. It also overcoming the disappointment of being dropped for the first time.
“I was just wondering what you do when you grow – says the greater milanesee and ESA astronaut, with house in Brianza – when she got a call from Roberto Battiston, president of the Italian Space Agency, I suggested the possibility offered by NASA get back into space. I looked into his eyes Maximilian Louis and Sophia, Alexandra I looked and I said “yes”. Besides Sofia, who was only two years during my last mission, it often indicates the astronauts on TV. And I have to ask, and I, then, who is? “Dad answers.” I’ll tell you again what it means to float weightlessly in the absolute sense is most lacking astronauts land back. ”
And ‘in great shape: healthy at the table (salads and even salads), 60 beats at rest, 120 and 80 of pressure, Nespoli jumped yesterday as oil Heart armchairs seat ASI to reach the reporters who called upon him. From the boom of Luca Parmitano, 38, great communicator, the first Italian in orbit, Samantha Cristoforetti, which captivated millions of girls, the sixty Nespoli, already a pioneer of Twitter with its stunning photos, you start to open up an even broader front among those who, in all ages, seeking answers not trivial. European astronaut will become the oldest ever, even if the legendary American John Glenn is back up to 77 years.
THE STORY
“I am honored – says proudly showing the tricolor flag and the logo on the shirt ASI – to be able to put my long experience at the service of the space station on which I will once again the electrician, the plumber and the guinea pig for many medical experiments. It ‘been spent just to train me and I think it right, after the missions of 2007 and 2011, asking even a return to those investments. And I want to reach many young people. “
Already, with seven missions in 11 years ASI reiterates its weight in the activity of the great laboratory which is orbiting the ISS, where half of the housing units are made in Italy. More: Frank De Winne, ESA said that the Moon and Mars will also Italian astronauts. “Maybe I will not be – smiles Nespoli – but when I hear of a twin planet of Earth to” only “1400 years light I get excited like everyone and I hope that many young people already are thinking about how to travel faster. History is full of business impossible because someone did not know who they were. ”
Thursday, July 30, 2015, 08:59 – Last Updated: July 31, 12:09
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