Samantha Cristoforetti - Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut
Season 1, Episode 42, Sep 12, 2020, 09:21 AM
In this episode Richard Kilgarriff shares OMI with the Italian pilot who became an astronaut, who dreamed of living in the sky and looking down on planet earth. In The Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut, Samantha Christoforetti charts an intense five-year journey of spinning upside down and floating underwater to prepare for the launch of Soyuz TMA15M – the rocket which takes her up, up and away to the International Space Station orbiting the earth, where she lives with two crew members for a record-breaking 199 days and 16 Hours.
'Today I woke up on Earth. And I will fall asleep in space.'
This is the story of Samantha Cristoforetti's incredible journey, from aspiring student to record-breaking astronaut: How she excelled through thousands of applicants to share a tiny cabin with her crew on the international space station for 200 days.
Get a copy of The Diary of An Apprentice Astronaut HERE
This is the story of Samantha Cristoforetti's incredible journey, from aspiring student to record-breaking astronaut: How she excelled through thousands of applicants to share a tiny cabin with her crew on the international space station for 200 days.
Get a copy of The Diary of An Apprentice Astronaut HERE