Samantha and her Minerva mission logo

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti with her Minerva mission patch.

Samantha is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station for the second time in April 2022.

She will be launched on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, alongside NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins, as a mission specialist for Crew-4.

For more about Samantha and her Minerva mission, visit the Minvera mission page.