peggy whitson set a new record for the longest space flight by a woman.
peggy whitson set a new record for the longest space flight by a woman.
who set a new record for the longest space flight by a woman?
peggy whitson
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samantha cristoforetti (; born 26 april 1977 in milan) is an italian european space agency astronaut, italian air force pilot and engineer. she holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight of a european astronaut (199 days, 16 hours), and until june 2017 held the record for the longest single space flight by a woman until this was broken by peggy whitson. she is also the first italian woman in space. samantha cristoforetti is also known as the first person who brewed an espresso in space.









































section::::early life.
samantha cristoforetti
this 14-day mission required nasa to solve some of the problems of long-duration space flight, such as stowage of waste (the crew had practiced stuffing waste paper behind their seats before the flight). timing their workday to match that of the prime shift ground crews, both men worked and slept at the same time. gemini 7 conducted twenty experiments, the most of any gemini mission, including studies of nutrition in space. the astronauts also evaluated a lightweight spacesuit, the g5c, which proved uncomfortable when worn for a long time in the gemini spacecraft's hot, cramped quarters. the high point of the mission came on the eleventh day with the rendezvous with gemini 6a. both astronauts, heeding the advice of pete conrad who had flown for eight days on gemini 5, took books along to read. gemini 7 was the longest crewed space flight in u.s. history until the skylab missions of the 1970s, and held the record for the longest space flight until soyuz 9 in june 1970.
gemini 7