Astronauts selected and flown by Italy's national program and its ASI agency, principally as members of the European Space Agency's astronaut corps. Belongs here: any career Italian astronaut selected through ASI or ESA. Does not belong here: an astronaut of another European nation with too few members in this atlas to warrant its own subcategory, grouped under International Partner and Guest Astronauts.
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1. Wikipedia: Franco Malerba
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In 1992 he was the first citizen of Italy to travel to space.
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