Samantha Cristoforetti

Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She is the second of two women sent into space by ESA and the first from Italy. Cristoforetti holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut, and she held the record for the longest single space flight by a woman until this was broken by Peggy Whitson in June 2017, and later by Christina Koch. She took command of ISS Expedition 68 on 28 September 2022.

26 April 1977

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Born on the same birth day (26 April): Avi Nimni • Carol Burnett • Douglas Sirk • Gerard Cafesjian • Israr Ahmed • Jack Douglas (actor) • James Holt (historian) • Jason Bargwanna • Jay DeMarcus • Jimmy Giuffre • Joan Chen • John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria) • Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily • Michael Mathias Prechtl • Mitch Rein • Richard Bradshaw (conductor) • Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer) • Ruut Tarmo • Vicente Aleixandre

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