The first woman from Europe will be at the ISS in 2014
Samantha Cristoforetti, from the European Space Agency, will leave in 2014 at the Russian Soyuz from the Baikonur cosmodrome, and will become the first European woman-astronaut to visit the ISS. Thomas Reiter, Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations in the European Space Agency, said that the mission of the Italian astronaut will last 6-7 months. “With great satisfaction, we see how the third astronaut from the 2009 set was appointed to space in space,” he said.