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While Cristoforetti, 37, has yet to tweet about her new home, a video posted by the European Space Agency shows a beaming Cristoforetti and her fellow crew members being welcomed to their new home in low Earth orbit.

Cristoforetti will spend the next five months controlling the International Space Station and handling many of the scientific experiments that are being run by astronauts for scientists back on Earth.

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PHOTO: European Space Agency's Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti gestures as her space suit is tested at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, prior to blasting off to the International Space Station (ISS), Nov. 23, 2014.
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Among the other guests aboard the ISS are twenty rodents, which arrived in September aboard the SpaceX Dragon capsule.

The animals have been living in NASA's Rodent Research Facility where researchers are studying the long-term impact of weightlessness on their bodies.

Also on board the ISS is the first 3-D printer launched into space. It could potentially crank out spare parts that will allow astronauts to one day fix their vessel on the spot.

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PHOTO: launch of a Roscosmos Soyuz FG rocket with Russia's Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Nov. 23, 2014.
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Living in space may be a dream for the Italian astronaut, but she'll have to do without a few earthly pleasures. Before launch, she tweeted on Sunday that she had \"what was probably my longest shower ever.\"

Cristoforetti also enjoyed a final feast on Earth before she has to switch over to space cuisine.

We just had our final meal. I was really hungry! Soon time to head to the cosmodrome. #Launchday #Futura42 pic.twitter.com/f0eeMGo9M1

— Sam Cristoforetti (@AstroSamantha) November 23, 2014

One other thing she'll have to do without, for now: A cup of genuine Italian espresso.

ISSpresso, an espresso machine designed by engineering company Argotec and coffee roaster Lavazza in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency, is one of the many items headed to space in April 2015, which comes toward the end of Cristoforetti's visit.

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