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unusual facts about Franco Malerba


Italian Space Agency

Franco Malerba, Italy’s first astronaut and the only one not to fly as a member of the EAC.


Buio Pesto

Their second album, Cosmolandia, was released in 1998, with more than 3,000 copies sold, and contains an unedited song Cosmolandia, sung by Franco Malerba, the first Italian astronaut in space for the NASA in 1992 with the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-46.


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