Samantha Cristoforetti
Italian - ( ESA)
Active
Date of Birth: April 26, 1977
Age: 45
Samantha Cristoforetti (born 26 April 1977 in Milan) is an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight of a European astronaut (199 days, 16 hours), and until June 2017 held the record for the longest single space flight by a woman until this was broken by Peggy Whitson. She is also the first Italian woman in space. Samantha Cristoforetti is also known as the first person who brewed an espresso in space.
Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-15M
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 23, 2014, 9:01 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission: Human Exploration
Soyuz TMA-15M begins expedition 42 by carrying 3 astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station. Russian Commander, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov alongside Flight Engineers, Samantha Cristoforetti (ESA) & Terry W. Virts (NASA) will launch aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and then rendezvous with the station. It landed on 11 June 2015 13:44 UTC
Low Earth Orbit
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-4
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 27, 2022, 7:52 a.m.
The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,000 employees. ESA's space flight programme includes human spaceflight (mainly through participation in the International Space Station program); the launch and operation of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon; Earth observation, science and telecommunication; designing launch vehicles; and maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana.
LauncherOne
Straight Up
Mojave Air and Space Port - Air launch to orbitLaunch contracted by the U.S. Space Force for the Rocket Systems Launch Program (RSLP), with payloads provided by the DoD Space Test Program (STP) as…
Atlas V 541
USSF-12
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USATwo US national security payloads. The first is the Space Force's Wide Field of View (WFOV) Testbed satellite, the second is a multi-manifest satelli…
PSLV
DS-EO & others
Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad - Sriharikota, Republic of IndiaDS-EO is an electro-optical multispectral Earth observation satellite for DSTA from Singapore. Secondary payloads are NeuSAR and SCOOB-I, both also f…
Falcon 9
SES-22
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAGeostationary communications satellite
Electron
CAPSTONE
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandCAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) is a 12-U cubesat mission to test operations in nea…
