The ASI mission named FUTURA, launched on November 23rd, 2004, sees for the first time in space the ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, with 9 scientific experiments aboard.
Experiments: Blind and Imagined - move Short bLind plus shrINK (SLINK); Bone/Muscle check; Cell Shape and Expression (Cytospace); Drain Brain; Orthostatic Tolerance; POP 3D; Nanoparticles and Osteoporosis (NATO); Wearable monitoring; ISSpresso
Astronauts: Samantha Cristoforetti
WEDNESDAY 25 OCTOBER 2023
The project has a duration of 3 years MORE...
WEDNESDAY 25 OCTOBER 2023
WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2022
AstroSamantha will become the first European astronaut in command of the International Space Station MORE...
THURSDAY 21 JULY 2022
First extravehicular activity for Samantha Cristoforetti MORE...
TUESDAY 19 JULY 2022
On Friday 15 July, the first detailed study on this "New Year's Burst" was published in the Astrophysical Journal, using data acquired by the AGILE satellite MORE...