(Jul. 6) – “Samantha Cristoforetti represents Trentino we all like. The innovative and experimenting Trentino, a region that has the courage to take new paths. I thins everyone in Trentino has to be proud for the first Italian woman in the space.” So speaks Lorenzo Dellai, President of the Autonomous Province of Trento, commenting the news released in recent days. The November 2014 Soyuz mission, in fact, will see the presence of Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman in space, as officially told in Rome by the President of the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), Enrico Saggese. Samantha Cristoforetti, captan of the Italian Air Force, will reach the International Space Station (ISS) on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft for a long duration mission. After a secondary education in Trento, Samantha Cristoforetti graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Technische Universität Munich, Germany, and completed a bachelor degree in aeronautical sciences at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, in 2005. Samantha completed a basic training in 2010 and she is now training for the Russian spacecraft Soyuz. “The last three years spent as a European astronaut have been wonderful, both from a personal and professional point of view”, sias Samantha after receiving the news. (Gil/Red)
