Samantha Cristoforetti

A Barbie that spent six months orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station will go on public display for this first time this week at the Design Museum in London.

It will be part of a new exhibition marking the 65th anniversary of the Barbie brand, set to open on July 5 in partnership with the doll's creator Mattel.

Η Ιταλίδα Samantha Cristoforetti γράφει ιστορία.
 

A child from the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri has ranked first in a painting competition organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) after drawing the picture of Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, receiving a letter of thanks from her.

İlknur Sinem Sezer, a fourth-grade primary school student, applied to ESA's painting contest named "Living in Space."

This is what Europe looks like from space, utterly beautiful.

We have astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, of the European Space Agency, to thank for the  photos of Earth from the International Space Station.

The series begin with the Canary islands and continue on towards Italy.

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Italy's first female astronaut has safely docked with the International Space Station, NASA said.
      
Samantha Cristoforetti, along with Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and American astronaut Terry Virts, arrived at the orbiting space lab on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft at 0249 GMT Monday, NASA said.