MOSCOW, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - In March-May 2005 Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori will make a visiting flight to the International Space Station, he told the news conference on Tuesday.
The protocol on mutual understanding regarding the launch of the Russian Soyuz spaceship has been signed on Tuesday by Russia's Federal Space Agency, the European Space Agency and the president of the Lazio province (heartland Italy).
The Italian will spend eight days aboard the ISS holding experiments on order from different companies in the province. One is in earthquake prognostication.
In preliminary information, the Italian will be aided by Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and American John Phillips.
Last August Vittori began training in the Russian cosmonaut preparation centre together with the Russian and American cosmonauts.
It will be Roberto Vittori's second flight to the ISS. His first was in 2002.
