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Italy's first astronaut reaches space station

24 November 2014 Last updated at 06:50 GMT Clock

First astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti Italy came to the International Space Station.

She was one of the crew in a Soyuz spacecraft blasted off from Kazakhstan on Sunday and Russian cosmonaut Yelena Serova woman arrived at the space station which came in September.

Woman Cristoforetti former captain of the Italian Air Force and was selected as an astronaut of the European Space Agency in 2009.

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