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Samantha Cristoforetti will return to space for the second time and the details of the mission will be officially presented on Wednesday 3 March, as announced by the European Space Agency (ESA).
Cristoforetti has belonged to ESA's astronaut corps since 2009 and this will be his second flight in Space.
In his first "Futura" mission in 2014-15 he spent 200 days in orbit, carrying out scientific research and operations on the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 42/43.
Once back on Earth, Samantha worked at the ESA European Astronaut Center (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, where she led the "Spaceship EAC" team, made up of students and young professionals working on the challenges. technologies of future lunar missions.
She was then the astronaut representative in the Gateway project to build a space station in the lunar orbit and in 2019 she was commander of NEEMO23 (NASA's 23rd Extreme Environment Mission Operations), a ten-day mission in the only undersea research station in the world. the Aquarius.
Samantha is thrilled to be leaving on her second space mission.
"The International Space Station is humanity's outpost in space. It is an engineering marvel, a place of peaceful and fruitful international cooperation, an interdisciplinary laboratory dedicated to science in a microgravity environment," said the astronaut.