Franco Malerba
Italian - (ASI)
Retired
Date of Birth: Oct. 10, 1946
Age: 79
Franco Egidio Malerba (born 10 October 1946 in Busalla, Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy) is an astronaut. He was the first citizen of Italy to travel to space. After selection in 1989 as a Payload Specialist by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and NASA, he became a staff member of ASI and was assigned to the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, for training. In September 1991, he was designated Prime Payload Specialist for the TSS-1 Space Shuttle mission. Malerba flew as the first Italian citizen in space on STS-46 (31 July 1992 to 7 August 1992).
Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-46
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
July 31, 1992, 1:56 p.m.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
16 x Rassvet-3
Unknown Pad - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationNote: Payload identities uncertain. Batch of 16 Rassvet-3 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Russian Byuro-1440 (Bureau 1440) conste…
Smart Dragon 3
10 x CentiSpace-1
Haiyang offshore launch location - Haiyang Oriental SpaceportChinese commercial small satellites by Beijing-based company Future Navigation for providing GNSS augmentation signals services from LEO. They are pa…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 10-62
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz 2.1a
Progress MS-33 (94P)
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanProgress resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 17-15
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
