PARIS, FRANCE: ***EDITORIAL USE ONLY*** In this undated handout photo provided by the European Space Agency (ESA), Samantha Cristoforetti poses for a photograph at ESA Headquarters in Paris, France. Samantha Cristoforetti was born in 1977 in Milan, Italy. She studied at the Technical University of Munich, the Ecole Nationale Superieure de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace in Toulouse, France and the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology in Moscow, Russia. She holds a master’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in aeronautical sciences from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Lt. Cristoforetti is a fighter pilot with the Italian Air Force. (Photo by Stephane Corvaja/ESA via Getty Images)
