S1 Ep42: Samantha Cristoforetti - Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut

In this episode Richard Kilgarriff shares OMI with the Italian pilot who became an astronaut, who dreamed of living in the sky and looking down on planet earth. In The Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut, Samantha Christoforetti charts an intense five-year journey of spinning upside down and floating underwater to prepare for the launch of Soyuz TMA15M – the rocket which takes her up, up and away to the International Space Station orbiting the earth, where she lives with two crew members for a record-breaking 199 days and 16 Hours.