(ANSA) - Milan, February 27 - Italian astronaut Samantha
Cristoforetti gave a Vulcan salute to mark the passing of
American actor Leonard Nimoy, who died Friday in California aged
83.
"Live long and prosper, Mr. #Spock!" Italy's first woman in
space tweeted from the International Space Station (ISS), where
she is posted for six months along with five American and
Russian fellow crew members.
Nimoy, who died of pulmonary disease, began playing the
role of the pointy-eared, half human, half Vulcan Spock
character in the Star Trek TV series in the 1960s.
He later admitted he developed a kind of "mythical
identification" with as well as ambivalence about the Spock
character, the New York Times reported.
He expressed this contradiction between art and life in the
titles of two autobiographies: I Am Not Spock, published in
1977, and I Am Spock, published in 1995.
Cristoforetti's Vulcan salute for Nimoy
American actor who played Star Trek's Spock dead at 83