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

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WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2022

SAMANTHA CRISTOFORETTI WILL BE THE COMMANDER OF THE ISS ‣

AstroSamantha will become the first European astronaut in command of the International Space Station MORE...

WEDNESDAY 25 OCTOBER 2023

ASI and CNR-INO launch the Joint-Lab on Space Oriented Quantum Technologies ‣

The project has a duration of 3 years MORE...

WEDNESDAY 25 OCTOBER 2023

ASI and CNR-INO launch a Joint-Lab on Space Oriented Quantum Technologies ‣

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THURSDAY 21 JULY 2022

ASTROSAMANTHA, THE FIRST EUROPEAN SPACEWALKER ‣

First extravehicular activity for Samantha Cristoforetti MORE...

TUESDAY 19 JULY 2022

AGILE, published the first article about the “New Year’s Burst” ‣

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...