The pioneering astronaut from Paternò near ... The mission couldn't have a more upbeat Italian name: 'Volare' ('Flying'), after the world-famous 1958 song by Domenico Modugno.

The Italian spaceman himself is bald. His Russian colleague Alexander Skvortsov pointed out that the main quality for an astronaut is determination. The Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the manned ...

ROME, April 12. /TASS/. According to Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori, vacations in outer space are beyond any possibility given that space flight is an extreme adventure, he stressed in an ...