# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samantha-cristoforetti
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:05:54.453Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/samantha-cristoforetti"
name: "Samantha Cristoforetti"
slug: "samantha-cristoforetti"
description: "Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She is the second of two women sent into space by ESA and the first from Italy. Cristoforetti holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut, and she held the record for the longest single space flight by a woman until this was broken by Peggy Whitson in June 2017, and later by Christina Koch. She took command of ISS Expedition 68 on 28 September 2022."
tagline: "Italian European Space Agency astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer (1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samantha_Cristoforetti_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1977-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump