On June 11, Samantha Cristoforetti will return to Earth after two hundred days on the International Space Station. She’ll be setting a record for length of a single mission for ESA astronauts, Italian astronauts and all female astronauts.
Cristoforettiis also a prolific photographer and tweeter from space, giving us every opportunity to see herbeautiful shots or justlifeon the ISS. We’ll miss her photos, but space’s loss is definitely our gain.
Here’s the original tweet, with Cristoforetti spotting her home:
Spotting the Mediterranean always has a feel of homecoming. I also love that hint of North Africa red in the dark! pic.twitter.com/Yhd4ZCS7Pa
— Samantha Cristoforetti (@AstroSamantha) June 8, 2015
[via theESA]
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