To celebrate IWD here's a photo of my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman to fly into space and do a spacewalk, and the first European woman to command the International Space Station.
The closeup is part of a photo I took at pad 39A of Kennedy Space Center on Apr 21, 2022, a few days prior to launching with her ride to space at left. Her ride at KSC is the red one.
