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.
No comments:
Post a Comment