Samantha Cristoforetti

Two long-duration missions, commander of the ISS, almost a year in space.

Samantha Cristoforetti, also a classmate of 2009.

She's been raising the bar for us since then.

Italian Air Force fighter pilot and engineer, flown twice to the ISS, first European woman to perform her spacewalk, first European woman to command the International Space Station, and she's one of those slightly annoying people who also seems to be speaking all the languages, and you can ask her questions about these too.

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On the Space Show, we are eavesdropping on a panel discussion held in Paris on September 9 or 10, I'm not sure which date, and a bunch of astronauts are discussing their experiences.

In this section, Alex Gerst notes how astronauts have to cope with change of plans and Samantha Cristoforetti on cooperation between astronauts.

So building up on the legacy and the history of the ISS, I'll turn to Alex.

So it went up on Ariane 5.

It arrived on August 12, 2014, and it was installed by an Italian astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti, in the Columbus module on March 12, 2015.

And that was the first artwork placed in space ever.

I got you.

One of my line managers, I kind of report to my UK space agency line manager and Alex is sort of one of my line managers as well.

So, yeah, we see these guys, Andy Morganson, Samantha Cristoforetti, see every now and then as well.

I probably see her husband more than I see how I go running with him every now and then.

I speak to Tim, Tim Peake, every now and then as well.