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(ANSA) - Rome, November 20 - Samantha Cristoforetti is poised to become the first Italian woman to go into space. The astronaut is currently completing the final stages of her preparation on Russia’s Baikonur base in Kazakhstan and will blast off on Sunday at 10:01 a.m., Italian time. Her mission, Futura, is the second Italian Space Agency (ASI) one of long duration, and part of the 1997 ASI-NASA bilateral agreement for the supply of three pressurized habitation modules. The first was the 2013 Volare mission with Luca Parmitano.
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