"There is a special atmosphere of cooperation aboard the International Space Station, and that is another reason I miss it and will miss it." Samantha Cristoforetti talked to the press for the first time after 170 days on the Minerva mission Tuesday in Cologne. "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to travel twice; it was an honor," she said. AstroSamantha said that she is feeling great - "maybe even better than previous time, it seems that everything is simpler this time." S he also spoke of her friendships with her crewmates, including the one with the Russian Oleg Artemyev, from whom she took leadership of the International Space Station on September 29 of last year and with whom she participated in the spacewalk on July 21. "Having completed the spacewalk with him has developed a very deep relationship," she acknowledged. Among her finest memories are the sensation of weightlessness and the new records she brought back with her, such as the first spacewalk and the first ISS command by a European woman astronaut. Adding the 170 days of her most recent voyage to the 200 days of the Futura mission in 2014, she is the second woman with the longest stay in orbit, behind Peggy Whitson of the United States.