@cernFBLIVE final Script EUROPEAN ASTRONAUTS LIVE ON FB FROM CERN FRI. 12.05.17

Start time 16h20 Duration 30’ Language ENGLISH LOCATION 513, DATA CENTRE

HOST/script PAOLA Director JACQUES ASTRONAUTS Helen Sharman Camera &Sound JULIEN

Claude Nicollier

Q/A JULIE Stage manager, spare guest on IT FRANCOIS questions Live webcast MAREK IT communications &support MELISSA, ANTHONY

Promotion ahead of event JULIE

HASHTAG to be used #ASTRONAUTS@CERN? PLAYLIST: • General / AERIAL SHOTS CERN • TSR (Tania) DATA CENTRE clip • DRONE in data centre clip • Countdown animation • ASTRONAUTS VISITING AMS footage • AMS HOW LONG clip

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European Astronauts @ CERN

Start FB live to test LIVE SOON 16:15 05:00 footage transmission CRISTOFORETTI – NICOLLIER - SHARMAN

Welcome to CERN, I am PC from CERN Communications and in about 5 minutes I’ll be joined by 3 exceptional European astronauts here in CERN’s data centre.

We’re waiting for Samantha Cristoforetti, Helen Sharman and Claude Nicollier to join m, they’ re currently visiting the CERN Data Centre, just behind me.

CERN has 200 000 processors in the huge halls on several floors which you can partially see just behind the glass, to process data from the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider, the largest scientific machine in the world, 100 m below my feet, which produces 40 bn collisions per HOST second. 2’ Pre intro Translated into data this amounts to about 50 million gigabytes per year, as much data as you can store on 10 million DVD (or 300 years of non stop HD quality videos). 16:24 Let’s now take a special tour around the fabulous data center of CERN while we’re waiting for the astronauts to join me in minutes!

16:26 2’26’’ CLIP A racing drone tour in the data centre drone http://cds.cern.ch/record/2262336 CLIP

astronauts@cernFBLIVE final Script And welcome back to the CERN Data Centre, for those who just joined us on the fb live we’re waiting for 3 exceptional people, 3 European astronauts - Samantha Cristoforetti, Helen Sharman and Claude Nicollier – ESA - who will join me in CERN’s Data Centre to answer your questions. Start posting them on the space just below this window on FB!

Our guests are currently visiting CERN with fellow astronauts from 16’29’’ 1’ the European Chapter of the Association of Space Explorers, a sort of European Astronauts Club and you might wonder why… INTRO

Well, CERN is not just the home of the LHC, the largest scientific instrument on earth, but has a variety of experiments and control centres on site and one of them has a lot to do with space. It’s AMS, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometre, assembled at CERN, launched to HOST the International Space Station by a Mission in 2011 and controlled by physicists in the AMS P O C C on CERN site, not far from here.

That’s where the astronauts were only minutes ago. Let’s take a look!

16’30’’ 1’ CLIP AMS VISIT Astronauts visiting AMS POCC CLIP

16:31 10’’ COUNTDOWN COUNTDOWN ANIMATION ANIMATION

And here they are, ESA astronauts, welcome ! Samantha Cristoforetti IT, Helen Sharman UK and Claude Nicollier CH, thanks for joining this FB live event from CERN! How was your visit, have you enjoyed? Were you impressed?

HOST and ASTRONAUTS - 1 comment on CERN ‘s visit per (Paola passes the ASTRONAUTS microphone) 16’31’’ 2’ I am very pleased we managed to impress space explorers like these with a visit to CERN, not easy to impress people like you with such a astronauts@cernFBLIVE final Script incredible personal history of literally “out of this world” records!

Before taking questions from the live audience following us via FB, let me spend a little time with each of you, starting from Helen. Striking facts about Helen: - Chemist, pioneer of space exploration, at 27 flew with the Soyuz and was the first woman to visit the orbital 16:33 3’ complex, the Soviet Space Station and predecessor of the International Space Station, during the Soviet-Juno mission in 1991. First Brit in space! Recently another young Brit visited the ISS, . Did you HELEN SHARMAN follow his launch and how did you feel? Do you miss space? HOST AND HELEN What are you doing now? SHERMAN THANKS HELEN, WE’LL SOON TAKE QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE FOR YOU

All astronauts are special people, I am particularly attached to Samantha, who probably does not know why … no not because she’s Italian like myself! I feel very close to you Samantha because I was following your launch on the Soyuz on Nov 23 2014 from the TSUP in Koroloyev, the Russian equivalent of Houston and I‘ ll never forget the emotion of that night! After that launch, Samantha spent 200 days on the ISS, setting the record of the longest single time in space for an ESA astronaut and female astronauts in general. 16:36 4’ SAMANTHA - What’s your best memory of the FURURA mission? CRISTOFORETTI HOST AND SAMANTHA You are also a … TOP GUN! Jet fighter pilot for the Italian Air Force, CRISTOFORETTI how did you like the race drone video? (if we can show her)/ Alternative question: on the importance of the number 42 for her (Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy and Soyuz mission 41-42)

Among the many experiments you carried out on the Space Station, one had to do with Italian coffee, can you tell us more about it?

And did you see AMS during your stay on the station? astronauts@cernFBLIVE final Script

16:40 4’ Someone who can tell us more about AMS is Claude Nicollier, who is at home at CERN not just because he was born on the shores of lake Geneva but mostly because Claude is an astrophysicist.

Claude, you are a veteran of space, part of the first ESA astronaut selection, with 4 space missions all with the Space Shuttle, between 1992 and 1999, one of them devoted to repair the Hubble Space CLAUDE Telescope, and the first European spacewalker. NICOLLIER Would you return to space to “repair” AMS were it necessary?

Are you following the AMS scientific programme and the LHC?

Host and CLAUDE What was your preferred mission out of the 4? NICOLLIER

Wrap up subjects for Q/A with astronauts and CERN, announce 16:44 Q&A Francois for IT questions Q/A

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later CONCLUSION THANKS AND CONTINUE QUESTIONS, ANSWERED OFFLINE HOST AND GUESTS

AMS how long - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcBTfTScl_M CLIP CLIP