Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency 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. Crist
Cristoforetti in 2013, before her first flight (Expedition 42)
Samantha Cristoforetti in a special sleeping bag that stops the person from drifting around in the micro-g environment of ISS
Samantha Cristoforetti attired in an Extravehicular Mobility Unit suit
Samantha Cristoforetti demonstrating the first in-space operation of the rHEALTH ONE universal biomedical analyzer as part of Expedition 67
The Technical University of Munich is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences.
Samantha Cristoforetti
…Trek." When she was 18, she took an AFS exchange program to the US and attended Space Camp. She studied in Bolzano and Trento and graduated from the Technical University of Munich with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. She studied at the École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace in Toulouse, France, and at the…
The new building of the Polytechnische Schule München in 1869
Lecture hall in the former Institute of Chemistry in 1909. An early version of the periodic table can be seen on the wall.
The research reactor FRM I, nicknamed the atomic egg, has become a landmark of the city of Garching, even being featured in its coat of arms.
The TUM campus in Garching with the Department of Mechanical Engineering to right