A quick passage, like the crossing of the International Space Station in the sky. The Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti she connected for about twenty minutes in the afternoon to answer questions from reporters connected with Houston and from there, an ideal bridge with the ISS.
She appeared smiling, the Italian flag hung behind her. And she told of her second experience of her up there, after her first mission, “Futura”, in 2014-2015, this time as head of the American segment, in which Europeans also live and work: “Since last time the responsibility has changed, here I have to have a 360-degree supervision of what happens on board, the activities in which everyone is engaged and how we can help each other. And the responsibility to maintain communications with a large team on the ground “.
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A messenger for humanity
Samantha Cristoforetti, with the blue ESA T-shirt and the emblem of the “Minerva” mission on her chest, began by revealing the name of the future Italian satellite constellation, defined as “the most important European satellite space program for Earth Observation in low orbit”, which will take shape over the next five years. “Space speaks to the heart and the imagination of young people from all over Italy, ”he said.
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The “Space for ideas” competition, launched by the Department for Digital Transformation with the Ministry of Education e the Italian Space Agency (ASI), in fact, saw the participation of 638 schools from the Peninsula who proposed over 1,000 names. The constellation will therefore be called “Iris”, announced AstroSamantha, “a name that I really like, chosen with my colleagues Parmitano and Vittori. It is the name of the goddess of classical mythology messenger of the gods, who it carried messages to humans to act correctly. In the same way, the satellites from above warn us about the health of the planet to keep climate change under control ”.
Command and experiments
The 45-year-old Italian astronaut is on his second mission on the International Space Station. During the first (Futura), between 2014 and 2015, she spent more than six months in orbit. It arrived on the ISS on April 28, 2022, the first in Italy on the new transport system Crew Dragon di SpaceX: “The launch was similar to the Soyuz, where I had never moved from the seat – he said – this time we were able to get out of the seats, we had dinner, we rested and we had breakfast, we lived in the Dragon” in which among comfort , there is also the bathroom.
Then, after the excitement of the return, a busy schedule. Also and above all about experiments: 35 European ones (in addition to international ones), six Italian ones. The majority concern health, the biomedical aspects, which are important for astronauts in space, but which allow research to progress even on Earth. He recalled in particular “Acoustic diagnosticson how the human hearing system changes in four to five months of exposure to the space environment.
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But which also experiments innovative diagnostic techniques “e Nutriss, “Which is about body health and nutrition, because what we eat is important to our lifestyle. In this regard, I am pleased to mention the collaboration with the International Osteoporosis Foundation, for raise awareness among young women as well to introduce a lifestyle with resistive training, with weights, essential for having strong bones “.
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Working for the Moon and Mars
For some time, AstroSamantha has been talking about seeing the Moon on the horizon. He reiterated that “being able to get up there, on the space station in lunar orbit is one possibility”Since“ there are agreements to have 3 European astronauts on the Gateway in the decade ”. In the meantime, work is also being done on the ISS for future lunar and Martian exploration: “An interesting experiment that we are conducting consists in control a robot from the ISS directly on the groundmaking it interact with humans “.
Because one day, astronauts and machines will explore together, but “we will delegate the riskiest tasks to them, controlling them completely, leaving them autonomous or in semi-autonomous mode. We are maturing the technology for the exploration of the Moon and also of Mars ”.