Samantha Cristoforetti ready for a centrifuge training session

European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is ready for a centrifuge training session, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Russia, 17 July 2013.

Samantha has been assigned to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2014 for a long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station.