To mark the International Women’s Day of 8 March, the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg invited, on Wednesday 15 March, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
The latter recalled the scientific, but also economic opportunities brought by the space domain. “I was serving as commander of the International Space Station, the first European woman to do so, but certainly not the last. At ESA [European Space Agency,...