Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineers Cady Coleman and Ron Garan of NASA and Alexander Samokutyaev<br /> and Andrey Borisenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency paid tribute to the <br />late mother of Italian Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency <br />with a moment of silence and a view of Italy out of the window of the Cupola <br />at 9:05 a.m. EDT on May 4, 2011. The moment of silence was observed as well at the Mission Control Centers in Houston; Huntsville, Alabama; Korolev, Russia; Munich, Germany and Tsukuba, Japan.<br /><br />Nespoli's mother, Maria Motta, passed away on May 2 in the town of Verano Brianza, Italy, near Milan, after a lengthy illness. She was 78 years old.
