During an April 27 NASA Television in-flight event, International Space Station Expedition 43 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti, of the European Space Agency, discussed the value of fitness and exercise as well as the highlights of her mission with Italian students involved in the Mission X fitness program. Cristoforetti, who is a native of Milan, Italy, is in the final weeks of a five and a half month mission on the station, headed for a return to Earth on May 14 in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.