Moscow, June 2, 2018. Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman in space, has a special relationship to Russia: she trained at "Star City" cosmonauts' facility and reached the International Space Station on a Soyuz spacecraft.
Samantha Cristoforetti is a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut who, between November 2014 and June 2015, spent 199 days on board the International Space Station as a Flight Engineer for Expedition 42 and 43. During ASI's Futura Mission, Samantha conducted experiments in the Station's laboratories.
