Samantha Cristoforetti Short biography
Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, former engineer and Italian Air Force pilot. She holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut (199 days, 16 hours). She is also the first Italian woman in space. She has served on two missions to the International Space Station, Expedition 42/43 in 2014-2015 and Expedition 67/68 in 2022. During her second mission, she became the first person to make a TikTok video on board the ISS.
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