Pegaso 5

Pegaso 5 was the spaceflight of the Istalian AISA's Pegaso Program that landed first Istalians on Luna, the natural satellite of Terra. Colonel Valerio Auriemma, Colonel Stefania Filippetti, Lieutenant Colonel Luisa Manca formed the crew that landed the Lunar Landing Module Luna on 27 April 4615 at 12:17 a.m. Romula's hour. The three became among the few people to step onto the lunar surface after the missions carried out previously by nations like Dorvik, first nation to reach the moon around 21th century, Deltaria, Hutori, Kazulia, Vanuku, etc... and 82 years after the last lunar mission of 4534 carried out by a Deltarian-Dundorfian join effort.

Pegaso 5 was launched by an Atlante SC rocket from the Carlo Manerba Space Center on 21 April carrying a crew of five, the three already mentioned astronauts plus the Lieutenant Colonel Marco Siri and Lieutenant Colonel Paolo Amadori who remained on the Pegaso module while the other three landed on the moon. It was the fifth crewed mission of AISA's Pegaso program. A lunar Pegaso mission spacecraft had three parts: a command module, the Pegaso capsule iteself, with a cabin for up to 6 astronauts and the only part that returned to Terra; a service module called Vulcano, which supported the command module with propulsion, electrical power, oxygen, and water; and a lunar module called Luna that had a descent stage for landing on the Moon and an ascent stage to place the astronauts back into lunar orbit. The surface crew spent 4 days before to rejoin the colleagues to come back home. They collected almost 58 kg of lunar material to bring back to Terra.

After being sent to the Moon by the Atlante SC third stage, the astronauts separated the spacecraft from it and traveled for three days until they entered lunar orbit. Auriemma, Filippetti and Manca then moved into Luna landing module and landed not far from the souther pole of the satellite. The astronauts used Luna's ascent stage to lift off from the lunar surface and rejoin Siri and Amadori in the command module. They jettisoned Luna before they performed the maneuvers that propelled Pegaso onto a trajectory back to Terra where the Pegaso capsule splashed down in the Perartic Ocean after more than 10 days in space.