12 Inspiring Life Stories From Women Around the World

During her workday, Samantha Cristoforetti circles the Earth every 92 minutes. An Italian flight engineer for International Space Station Expeditions 42 and 43, Samantha lives and works in orbit and shares that experience with people on Facebook. Samantha is the first Italian woman in space but prefers to think about a reality where it’s not incredible to be both a woman and an astronaut. Instead, she wants people to see it as normal so more young women and girls around the world will too.