After spending 200 days in space, she came back to Earth. Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian and European astronaut to become commander of the ISS, the International Space Station, and one of the most renowned astronauts of our time, tells Vanity Fair about her life "without borders": from her last trip to the spacewalk (in fact, she says, it is done with her hands), fear, his parents, children, TikTok, and the necessity of human ties for ascent. Who she is, what she seeks for in endless space (like his valley in the Alps), and what it's like to fly at 28 000 km/h and land "in a fireball" are all revealed. Astrosamantha claims that she was afraid of space "only once. I pondered this outside the station the night before my spacewalk. It wasn't fear, though. Rather, it is the understanding that you are taking a risk that is substantially bigger than the one you are now incurring".
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