Career record
Flights
2
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
370d 5h
Career EVA time
7h 5m
Spacewalks
0
Biography
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.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-4 — Mission Specialist · Success · April 27, 2022
- Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-15M — Flight Engineer · Success · November 23, 2014
Born 1977-04-26