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Oct 6, 2024 · Franco Malerba is an Italian biophysicist, astronaut, and member of the European Parliament, the first Italian to travel into space. Malerba received a B.S. in engineering (with a specialization in telecommunications) from the University of Genoa in 1970.
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In 1973 he taught Cybernetics and Information Theory for a semester at the physics faculty of the University of Genoa and worked as assistant summer researcher at the Nato Saclant Research Center in La Spezia, on identification and processing methods of sonar signals.
Franco Egidio Malerba (born 10 October 1946 in Busalla, Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy) is an Italian astronaut and Member of the European Parliament. He was the first citizen of Italy to travel to space.
Franco Malerba is the first Italian astronaut who flew in space with the Atlantis shuttle on 31st July 1992, bringing in orbit around Earth the Eureca laboratory and the Italian Tethered Satellite (TSS1).
Feb 27, 2003 · 31 July 1992, Franco Malerba became the first Italian in space, serving as Prime Payload Specialist onboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Though
Jan 20, 2023 · For some years now Franco Malerba has been living for six months a year in the Big Apple, where among other things he is a visiting research professor at NYU but, although he is at home in America, he has never thought of leaving Italy for good. In fact, he is intent on returning soon.
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Luigi Malerba: Il serpente (The Serpent) Malerba’s narrator/protagonist is one of those characters beloved of writers – an inveterate liar, a loner, a fantasist, a man who lives entirely in his own world and who despises people who do not (i.e. everyone else).
