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ITALIAN ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE
July 31, 1992. Launch of mission Shuttle Atlantis STS-46 from the Kennedy Space Center. The
mission Specialist Franco Malerba became the F i r s t I t al i an A s t r on au t i n S p a c e .
Malerba flew as Mission Specialist in an high profile Mission that largely publicized results of Italian
Science and high-tech Industry: the TETHERED satellite and the EURECA platform.
Commemorative cover postmarked with the machine pictorial “Shuttle” postmark at the Kennedy
Space Center on the day of launch of STS-46
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