Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, engineer and former Air Force pilot. She spent 200 days on the International Space Station as part of Expedition 42/43, mission Futura, in 2014-2015. Cristoforetti is currently on her second mission to the International Space Station, #MissionMinerva.
An incredible odyssey
*The Financial Times*
From the mundane to the sublime in a second. . . full of
illuminating observations from what Cristoforetti calls the 'cosmic
perspective '
*Guardian*
Samantha Cristoforetti is remarkable. . . a brilliant book
*BBC Radio 2*
Cristoforetti rocks. . . being awesome is part of the job. . . She
belongs to a new category of astronauts who are just as adept at
posting a witty Facebook post as they are at performing a science
experiment in minimal gravity
*Wired*
An enthralling book. . . Many of us are dreaming of an escape from
Earth at present - and Samantha Cristoforetti's absorbing tale of
becoming an astronaut and venturing into space offers just that. .
. She's a gifted writer
*Mail on Sunday*
Incredible detail and great writing. I do take exception with the
title because when I arrived on ISS, Samantha was far from an
apprentice astronaut
*Scott Kelly, author of Endurance*
Lately, I have become as fascinated by the way that humans relate
to science and the natural world, as I am to the scientific
breakthroughs themselves. . . So, this diary of what it is like to
do through astronaut training for a 200-day mission to the
International Space Station crossed my desk at exactly the right
time. ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti writes with honesty. Her
prose is simple and down to Earth, which increased my empathy for
her story
*BBC Science Focus Books of the Year*
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