Training in a Vacuum
European Space Agency astronaut and Italian Air Force officer Sam Cristoforetti will be headed to the International Space Station later this year. She posted this photo of her in a Russian Sokol spacesuit inside a vacuum chamber to her Twitter account (@AstroSamantha).
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