Paolo gave today at Heureka almost 2 hours presentation of his half year stay at the International Space Station. The crew at the station is 6 persons all time. Three persons are changed every 3 months. Paolo is a great presenter, like Timothy Korpa. Paolo took 26 000 pictures of his trip and some of them are published at internet. He travelled to the station with a Russian rocket, which is simply technolodgy compared to American space shutle. The Russian rockets are reliable and quite cheap to operate. In the principle the rocket is the same as the Yuri Gagarin rocket in 1961 and even the launch pad is the same. The landing was much rougher than with the shuttles, it was a big hit to the Earth.

Paolo wrote to card for me: "See you in space."