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Early prototypes of the SpaceX Starship super-capsule that Italy is chartering to speed its spaceflight and biotech experiments to Mars (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) Houston Chronicle via Getty Images With its expanding alliance with SpaceX, the Italian Space Agency is set to help chart and safeguard future astronaut flights to Mars while testing techniques to transplant life across the ruddy desert dunes of the Red Planet. The agency, representing one of the globe’s rising space powers, is taking initial exploratory steps aimed at propelling giant leaps in founding a human citadel on Mars, one day surrounded by paradisiacal gardens mirroring Eden 1. Teodoro Valente, president of Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, tells me in an interview that ASI has commissioned one of the first SpaceX treks to Mars by its Starship super-capsule for a series of leading-edge experiments. The ASI-designed mission to Mars is ultimately aimed at protecting aeronauts and other life from Earth across their earliest interplanetary flights and during path-breaking sojourns on the Martian sandhills, says Valente, a onetime professor on aerospace engineering and nanotechnologies at La Sapienza University, Rome, one of the leading academic centers in the European Union. When based at the elite, 700-year-old university, Professor Valente headed its collaboration with the Italian Space Agency and sketched out alternative designs to shield spacecraft blasted by the fiery temperatures generated while speeding through the Earth’s atmosphere, or descending through the Martian aether, in a series of trailblazing studies. Twin Italian experiments slated for a SpaceX demo flight to Mars, he says, will test how plants react to coursing through space at tens of thousands of kilometers per hour as the Starship, and its biotic passenger, are potentially pelted by high-energy cosmic particles emitted by exploding supernovas, or by protons ejected by the Sun. The Italian…

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