Simonetta Di Pippo, Giuseppe Pizza and Enrico Saggese

Third ATV has been named after the Italian physicist and space pioneer Edoardo Amaldi at a ceremony in Rome, 16 March.

Press conference hosted by Sottosegretario Giuseppe Pizza (centre), Ministry of Education, University and Research, in the presence of Enrico Saggese, President of Italy’s ASI space agency at the Italian Ministry in Rome (right) and Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA's Director of Human Spaceflight (left).