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Astro_benny
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👩🏻‍🚀🇮🇹 Astronaut Candidate
☄️ NASA citizen scientist | Asteroid huntress
🌌 Science communicator

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My interview for NASA!

science.nasa.gov/science-rese...

#space #NASA #astronauts
From NASA Citizen Scientist to Astronaut Training: An Interview with Benedetta Facini - NASA Science
Titans Space Industries, a commercial space company, selected a new cohort of astronaut candidates this spring – and among them is NASA citizen scientist,
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August 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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La mia intervista per la NASA!

science.nasa.gov/science-rese...

#spazio #NASA #astronauti
From NASA Citizen Scientist to Astronaut Training: An Interview with Benedetta Facini - NASA Science
Titans Space Industries, a commercial space company, selected a new cohort of astronaut candidates this spring – and among them is NASA citizen scientist,
science.nasa.gov
August 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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I am going to space!

I have been selected to join the Titans Space Astronaut Candidate Class!

Over the next years I'll undergo an intensive Astronaut training.

The first mission is scheduled for March 2029. It will last 5 hour at an altitude of 300 km with 3 hours of 0g.

Thank you Titans Space!
Me wearing a black flight suit with my name and the italian flag on it
June 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Biomass antenna deployment selfie 👇
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May 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Buona Giornata dell'Astronauta! 👩🏻‍🚀

La Giornata dell'Astronauta (USA) commemora il primo volo spaziale umano statunitense.
Questo evento ebbe luogo il 5 maggio 1961, quando l'Astronauta Alan Shepard pilotò la missione Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7).

#spazio #astronauta #alanshepard #astronautday
NASA Astronaut Alan Shepard inside the Friendship 7 spacecraft wearing a spacesuit NASA Astronaut Alan Shepard wearing a spacesuit NASA Astronaut Alan Shepard wearing a spacesuit
May 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Un Astronauta analogo è un individuo che partecipa a simulazioni di missioni spaziali sulla Terra, chiamate missioni analoghe.

Queste persone agiscono come Astronauti "sostitutivi", lavorando in ambienti che riproducono le condizioni fisiche, mentali e operative dell'esplorazione spaziale.

#spazio
Io che indosso la mia tuta di volo con il logo della mia missione analoga "Luna I" Sulle spalle ho la bandiera Italiana
April 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Buona Giornata della Terra! 🌍
Rispettiamo il nostro pianeta, la nostra casa!

La Giornata della Terra si celebra ogni anno il 22 aprile per sostenere la tutela dell'ambiente. 🌱🌷🌺

Si è tenuta per la prima volta il 22 aprile 1970 ed è ora un evento globale!

#giornatadellaterra #spazio #earthday
Io vicino ad un modello in scala del pianeta Terra Io vicino ad un modello in scala del pianeta Terra
April 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Welcome back to Earth’s gravity Don Pettit! What a brutal way to celebrate your 70th birthday after 220 days off-planet.
April 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Come sperimentare l'assenza di gravità senza andare nello spazio?

I voli parabolici riproducono le condizioni di assenza di gravità a bordo di un aereo. ✈️

Questi voli sono l'unico modo per testare la microgravità con gli esseri umani senza dover andare nello spazio.

#spazio #astronauti #zerog
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Schema volo parabolico
April 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Cos'è una missione spaziale analoga?

Una missione spaziale analoga è una missione spaziale simulata sulla Terra per imitare vari aspetti delle missioni spaziali.

Queste missioni sono progettate per replicare le condizioni che gli Astronauti sperimentano nello spazio.

#spazio #astronauti #NASA
Experiment on seeds and sprouts Experiment on seeds and sprouts
April 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Durante la mia missione analoga "LUNA I" ho eseguito un esperimento sui semi posti in diversi campi elettromagnetici e in gravità lunare artificiale.🌱

Vi interessa sapere di più sulle missioni spaziali analoghe? Fatemi sapere e sarò felice di spiegarlo. 🛰👩🏻‍🚀

#astronauti #spazio #scienza #esperimenti
Scienziata all'interno di un laboratorio che lavora ad un esperimento suo semi e sui germogli Esperimento sui germogli Esperimento sui semi
April 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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🇮🇹 Ti mostro l'habitat lunare del Centro di Addestramento Astronauti Analoghi in Polonia!
Missione: Luna I
La voce è generata dall'IA

🇺🇸 Come with me inside the lunar habitat of the Analog Astronaut Training Center!
Mission: Luna I
The voice is AI generated

#astronauts #space #nasa #analogastronaut
April 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Everything you need to know about the Soyuz MS-26 mission return to Earth!

Commander: Alexey Ovchinin (Roscosmos)
Flight Engineer 1: Ivan Vagner (Roscosmos)
Flight Engineer 2: Donald Pettit (NASA)

Spacecraft: Soyuz MS-26
Landing site: Steppe of Kazakhstan

#space #astronauts #spacestation
Soyuz MS-26 crew. Commander: Alexey Ovchinin (Roscosmos) Flight Engineer 1: Ivan Vagner (Roscosmos) Flight Engineer 2: Donald Pettit (NASA) Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft docked at the International Space Station.
April 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Happy International Day of Human Spaceflight!

April 12 is the International Day of Human Spaceflight is the annual celebration of the anniversary of the first human spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin.

#space #nasa #aerospace #astronaut #astronauta #internationaldayofhumanspaceflight
#humanspaceflightday
Me wearing a blue spacesuit inside a spacecraft simulator. The italian flag is on the spacesuit Me wearing a blue flight suit inside the Apollo spacecraft simulator Me wearing a blue spacesuit and smiling inside a spacecraft simulator Me wearing a NASA sweatshirt inside the Apollo spacecraft simulator
April 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Everything you need to know about the Soyuz MS-27 mission to the International Space Station!

#space #spazio #astronaut #cosmonaut #soyuz #internationalspacestation
Everything you need to know about the Soyuz MS-27 mission to the International Space Station! Commander: Sergej Ryzhikov Flight Engineer 1: Alekej Zubritskiy Flight Engineer 2: Jonathan Kim
April 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I got the opportunity to see the italian radio station used to intercept Jurij Gagarin's communications! 🇮🇹👩🏻‍🚀

Part 1

#space #cosmonauts #astronauts #JurijGagarin
I got the opportunity to see the italian radio station used to intercept Jurij Gagarin's communications! In the late 1950s and early 1960s, brothers Achille and Giovanni Battista Judica Cordiglia became world-famous for building a radio listening station using makeshift equipment. They became the first to intercept signals from satellites and transmissions from Astronauts in space. In 1957, they successfully intercepted and recorded signals from Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2, including the one carrying the dog Laika. Over time, they improved their equipment and developed satellite tracking techniques so effective that even NASA noticed them. They were able to capture and record signals from all major satellites launched by the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as communications from Astronauts and Cosmonauts. The Soviets, obsessed with secrecy, posed a particular challenge for the brothers: unlike the Americans, they never announced their launches in advance, only after the mission had begun or even ended, to avoid public embarrassment in case of failure. However, the Judica Cordiglia brothers learned to recognize the radio signals exchanged by Soviet bases before a launch. This allowed them to be ready to listen to transmissions as soon as a rocket took off, often before the rest of the world even knew about it.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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I got the opportunity to see the italian radio station used to intercept Jurij Gagarin's communications! 🇮🇹👩🏻‍🚀

Part 2

#space #cosmonauts #astronauts #JurijGagarin
Their location in Turin was strategic: the standard trajectory of Soviet spacecraft passed directly over their area, enabling optimal reception of radio communications. On February 20, 1962, when the United States sent John Glenn into orbit, they kept the radio frequencies secret to prevent Soviet interference. For the Italian brothers, this was a major obstacle, but they did not give up. By analyzing an official photo of a Mercury capsule recovery, they noticed the vehicle’s radio antenna. With the help of their father, a forensic medicine expert, they used the faces of two sailors in the picture as a reference to calculate the antenna’s length and, consequently, determine its transmission frequency. Thanks to this insight, they were able to listen to Glenn’s voice from space. Their growing notoriety attracted the attention of intelligence services and spies. One day, they were visited by a supposed Soviet journalist who offered technical collaboration in exchange for confidential information. Shortly after, an Italian intelligence officer warned them that the man was actually a Soviet spy.
April 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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I got the opportunity to see the italian radio station used to intercept Jurij Gagarin's communications! 🇮🇹👩🏻‍🚀

Part 3

#space #cosmonauts #astronauts #JurijGagarin
The most unsettling of their discoveries concerned Soviet space missions that were never officially acknowledged. The brothers intercepted transmissions that seemed to suggest the existence of failed launches with Cosmonauts on board, both before and after Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight. Some of the most dramatic events they recorded: • November 28, 1960: A Morse code signal in English repeated the desperate message: "SOS to the whole world." It appeared to come from a Cosmonaut adrift in space, unable to return to Earth. • February 2, 1961: They intercepted sounds resembling a heartbeat and labored breathing. Two days later, the USSR announced the launch of a Sputnik spacecraft, which was expected to disintegrate in the atmosphere after a few days. • May 1961: They heard voices from two men and a woman in orbit. After a while, the male voices stopped transmitting, leaving only the woman’s voice. In her final moments, she repeatedly complained about feeling hot and seeing flames, until a final, heartbreaking scream was followed by silence. • October 14, 1961: They recorded the voice of a Cosmonaut whose spacecraft later disintegrated upon re-entering the atmosphere. • April 13, 1964: The Soviets announced the launch of the Polyot 2 satellite, officially unmanned. However, the brothers intercepted radio communications between someone on the spacecraft and ground control. The theory of the lost Cosmonauts remains shrouded in mystery. Neither the Soviet Union nor modern Russia has ever confirmed these events. Without definitive proof, the fate of these forgotten Astronauts remains one of the great enigmas of the space race.
April 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I created an anime version of myself using AI to edit my pictures! 🇮🇹👩🏻‍🚀

Ho creato una versione anime di me stessa usando l'IA per modificare delle mie foto! 🇮🇹👩🏻‍🚀

#ai #aiart #nasa #space #astronaut
Anime version of an astronaut in front of the italian flag Anime version of an astronaut in front of the italian flag Anime version of an astronaut holding the italian flag in front of the NASA logo Anime version of an astronaut holding the italian flag in front of the NASA logo
April 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Hello!
Let me introduce myself:
My name is Benedetta (Benny) and I am Italian. 🇮🇹
I am an Analog Astronaut and in my free time I am a science communicator.🛰🪐
My dream is to become the next Italian woman to fly to space! 👩🏻‍🚀
Nice to meet you!

#space #astronaut #NASA #Italy
April 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Passage of the International Space Station over Italy.
Photo exposure: 30 seconds

#astronomy #space #moon #mars #nasa #astronaut #spacetravel #internationalspacestation #spacestation
May 16, 2024 at 9:32 AM