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ISS Expedition 42 poster released Radio amateur and astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti IZ0UDF has put the final touches to the official crew poster for the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 42. It is now available to download. The poster parodies the popular The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and is without doubt the best ISS crew poster yet released. USA’s Terry Virts and Russia’s Anton Shkaplerov portray the two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox, Russia’s Alexander Samokutyaev is Humma Kavula, USA’s Butch Wilmore is Arthur Dent, Russia’s Elena Serova is Ford Prefect with Italy’s Samantha Cristoforetti as Trillian. NASA’s Robonaut 2 guest-stars as Marvin the Paranoid Android. Samantha should launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on November 23, 2014 at 2059 UT (3:59pm EST) also flying with her in the Soyuz will be Anton Shkaplerov and Terry Virts. She is expected to return to Earth in May 2015. Download the high resolution (57 MB) poster from http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/ exp_42_sfaposternw-2014-07-007_highres.pdf Samantha Cristoforetti IZ0UDF on Twitter https://twitter.com/AstroSamantha ISS Expedition 42 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition42/ AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/