Parmitano calls Nobel who have discovered new worlds

STOCKHOLM - The Earth is so beautiful that it pushes us to discover other planets and being able to discover one capable of hosting life would change our perspective: these are the first bars exchanged between the astronauts Luca Parmitano and Jessica Meir, in the first connection between the Space Station and the Nobel, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA). The astronauts greeted Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor, authors of the first discovery of an exoplanet, and the Stanley Whittingham, to whom we owe the lithium batteries

First connection between the Nobels and the Space Station

For the first time, the Nobel scientific winners will be able to talk to the astronauts of the International Space Station: it is the first connection of its kind ever organized and the initiative is from the European Space Agency (ESA). From 15.00 Italian, from the orbital station the commander Luca Parmitano and the American colleague Jessica Meir, protagonist of the first female spacewalk with Christina Koch, will do the honors for the Nobels, gathered in the Nobel Prize Museum.

There will be Nobel Prizes in Physics Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor, authors of the first discovery of a planet outside the Solar System, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Stanley Whittingham, who with John B. Goodenough and Akira Yoshinoal paved the way for rechargeable batteries lithium. The moderator will be astronaut Christer Fuglesang.

A Stockholm already immersed in a Christmas atmosphere is preparing to inaugurate the celebrations of the Nobel Week in a decidedly new way. "The Nobel discoveries are crucial for the work done on board the Space Station", says ESA in announcing the connection, linking the discovery of the first planets outside the Solar System with the launch of the European Cheops mission, scheduled on December 17 and that will go hunting for alien worlds. The connection is also a clear signal of how science is becoming increasingly important on the Space Station, where there are currently about 300 experiments related to a very large number of disciplines.