Samantha during a centrifuge training session

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti seen on the screen above the console, of the Control room of the big centrifuge of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, on 16 October 2014.

Samantha Cristoforetti is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the ISS, scheduled for November 2014 and as part of Expedition 42/43.