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Giovanni Caprara, journalist and writer, is science editor at "Il Corriere della Sera". He is the author of numerous publications on the history of science and space exploration, published in both Europe and the USA. Among his many awards, in 2000 he received the ConScientia Prize for science journalist of the year, presented jointly by the universities of Milan. In the same year, the International Astronomical Union at Harvard University named after him an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in recognition of his outreach activities in astronomy and space exploration. In 2010, he received the European Science Writers Award from the Euroscience Foundation, and in 2016, the Prize for Scientific Communications from the Italian Physics Society. In 2014 he was made a Knight of the Italian Republic. He has served as president of the Union of Italian Science Journalists (UGIS) since 2011. He designed and curated the new space section in the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan and is a member of many scientific committees, including Bergamo Science and the Galileo Prize for science education.
