Cristoforetti’s journey to the space station took long enough, starting with a complicated selection procedure in November 2014, followed by years of training. Cristoforetti writes that those returning from the ISS lay flowers before the statue of Yuri Gagarin in the Star City space training facility outside Moscow. The International Space Station, where Italian astronaut Samantha Christoforetti spent 200 days, longer than any other European. And yet page by page, the immensity of the effort involved in getting into space becomes ever clearer. Cristoforetti balances this by explaining the experiments she does in space and what benefits they could have on Earth.

Source: thestar July 28, 2020 21:22 UTC