Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Happy birthday, Italian astronaut Franco Malerba!


Franco Malerba, born October 10, 1945, went into space aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-46) as payload specialist in July-August 1992.  He is the first Italian citizen in space.  He was part of the Tethered Satellite System project, which was a joint effort between NASA and the Italian Space Agency.  However the satellite could not be deployed due to a tangled tether line and the project was scrubbed until STS-75 in 1996.

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