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Samantha Cristoforetti was the first Italian woman in space and only the third woman in the world to have spent time on the station.
Four astronauts have returned to earth in a SpaceX capsule following a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
"All the ground teams really across the world made it easy on us to live and work onboard the ISS," astronaut Thomas Pesquet says during a change of command ceremony aboard the International Space Station. SOUNDBITE
The ESA-NASA collaboration will develop a vital part of the Orion spacecraft which will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024.
Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide handed command of the International Space Station over to French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency in a ceremony aboard the station. "If I am the first French commander of a space vehicle today, it is largely to you that I owe it," Pesquet said as he thanked his home country shortly after receiving the key to the ISS.