ASI is using the Italian Navy's 95-year-old tall ship to study how the human body could respond to the stresses of long-duration spaceflight.
The Italian Space Agency (ASI) has enlisted students from the country's Naval Academy aboard a tall ship to examine how the human body responds to the stresses of long-duration spaceflight as part of its ICE-Blue initiative.
In 2024, ASI signed an Operational Agreement with the Italian Navy, under which the ICE-BLUE initiative was launched in 2025.
