On February 5, 2015 I attended an ARISS radio contact of an Italian school with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the International Space Station.
As a space enthuasiast the first student to ask a question to Cristoforetti, Elena Selmi, was thrilled at the opportunity to talk that day, her 13th birthday, with the first Italian woman in space. Which left Selmi stunned and speechless when Cristoforetti, before answering, wished her happy birthday from space.
Selmi eventually graduated in physics at Oxford and now works on the Bepi Colombo ESA mission to Mercury. At 24 she is the youngest Young Graduate Trainee staff member at ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) near Madrid. This ARISS article tells the full story in English (text in the second post of this thread).
The AstronautiCAST space podcast I co-host interviewed Selmi in Italian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm85aAhv0ww
This article in Italian I wrote that day in 2015 has a photo of Selmi and a video of the ARISS contact:
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