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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