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Luca Parmitano and Samantha Cristoforetti traveling to the Moon: first landing in 2025? Thanks to an agreement to be signed today at Palazzo Chigi between Italy and the United States, the two astronauts will bring the Earth’s satellite to Italy for the first time. Until now, the Italian presence on the moon is very scarce and very dim: a message from the then President of the Republic Giuseppe Saragat was recorded on tape and entrusted to the Apollo 11 crew along with a small tricolor flag. The tape is still there, it seems that it has never been heard. Instead, the flag was returned, but there really isn’t much to tell.
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Luca Parmitano and Samantha Cristoforetti on the Moon
As of today, however, the record changes, the undersecretary to the presidency of the Council with responsibility for space policies Riccardo Fraccaro will sign with the head of NASA, Jim Bridenstine, a cooperation agreement that further strengthens the historical link with the NASA dating back to the early 1960s with the epic of the San Marco satellites designed by Luigi Broglio, Carlo Buongiorno and Franco Fiario.
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Italy and its aerospace companies are also already heavily involved in the Lunar Gateway project, or the new space station that will orbit the Moon in a very eccentric way in just over four years, but from today we can talk openly about the Artemis project. the one with which Obama first and now – with many more trumpet blasts – Trump intends to reaffirm the supremacy of the United States in space. The first moon landing is scheduled for 2024 with the courtesy of leaving the new small step to a woman, who will not be limited to a few jumps but will settle on the Moon in a village at the south pole of the satellites whose inhabited modules are the center of the agreement. at present, in which Italian companies will continue to provide, with the coordination of the Italian Space Agency and ESA, housing modules in which Italian technology has been at the forefront for more than twenty years. It is composed of these modules for the current International Space Station and others will be installed at the Lunar Gateway. And then again in today’s pact, science experiments and telecommunications systems are foreseen.
But the best news is that this alliance, which makes ties with the United States very strong, perhaps to the detriment of those in progress with China destined to decrease because they are not really appreciated by NASA, will allow Italy to place its astronauts in the later missions. And right now the two candidates, perfect in terms of training and age, as well as highly qualified at NASA, are Luca Parmitano and Semantha Cristoforetti.
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