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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti spent almost 200 days on the International Space Station from 24 November 2014 as part of Expeditions 42 and 43 in a mission provided by Italy’s ASI space agency.

Samantha flew in Soyuz TMA-15M together with Roscosmos astronaut Anton Shkaplerov, and NASA astronaut Terry Virts.

Launch: 23 November 21:01 GMT (22:01 CET; 24 November 03:59 local time)

Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan

Spacecraft: Soyuz TMA-15M

Expeditions: 42 and 43

Docking: Six hours after launch at 02:49 GMT (03:49 CET)

Crewmates: Roscosmos astronaut Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Terry Virts

Touchdown: 11 June 2015 at 13:44 GMT (14:44 CEST)

Landing site: Kazakhstan

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Samantha working on TripeLux
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42 is the answer

15/03/2017 11621 views 138 likes
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Samantha back on Earth
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti back on Earth

11/06/2015 38655 views 174 likes
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Samantha, Terry and Anton
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti returning home

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Moving Leonardo
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Space Station remodelling

28/05/2015 13325 views 117 likes
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Samantha
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Samantha’s longer stay on Space Station

12/05/2015 24321 views 129 likes
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Dragon capture
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Second Dragon, fruit flies and fresh coffee for Samantha

22/04/2015 8603 views 86 likes
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Mission X students
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Mission X comes to a close with a call from space

25/03/2015 3452 views 27 likes
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Samantha working on Airway Monitoring
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Testing astronauts’ lungs in Space Station airlock

09/03/2015 12476 views 91 likes
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Dragon approaches Station
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Fresh supplies and experiments for Samantha

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Soyuz TMA-15M approaches Station
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti arrives at Space Stati…

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Samantha in Soyuz
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Samantha set for Space Station

21/11/2014 26157 views 84 likes
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POP3D printer
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Europe’s 3D printer set for Space Station

13/11/2014 52608 views 173 likes
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Dragon and ATV-5
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Getting supplies

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Expedition 42 group photo
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Astronauts sharing the Station

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Soyuz TMA-15M, Futura mission patch, 2014
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Samantha’s Futura logo

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Samantha spacewalk training
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Samantha’s mission has a name: Futura

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Entraînement
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti set for Space Station …

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