Samantha Cristoforetti during a centrifuge training session

European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti seen on the screen above the console, of the Control room of the big centrifuge of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Russia, 17 July 2013.

Samantha has been assigned to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2014 for a long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station.