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Colonel Luca Parmitano (born 27 September 1976 in Paternò, Sicily) is an Italian astronaut in the European Astronaut Corps for the European Space Agency (ESA). He was selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009. Parmitano is also a Colonel and test pilot for the Italian Air Force.
Luca Parmitano. Luca graduated from the Liceo Scientifico Statale 'Galileo Galilei' in Catania, Italy, in 1995. In 1999, he completed a bachelor’s degree in political sciences at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, with a thesis on international law.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is no stranger to the International Space Station. During his first mission, Volare, in 2013 he spent 166 days in orbit. He will return to the Space Station on 20 July 2019 for his second mission – Beyond.
May 29, 2013 · Volare is the name of the first long-duration mission of Italy's ASI space agency, with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano of Italian nationality. Luca was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on a Soyuz rocket with Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg.
Jan 25, 2014 · In August 2021, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and the head of the ESA Climate Office Susanne Mecklenburg joined a science expedition taking place at one of the biggest ice masses in the Alps: the Gorner Glacier. This is part one of Luca's first-hand account of accompanying a scientific team who are documenting how the glacier is changing in ...
Feb 6, 2020 · ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is back on Earth after touching down in the Russian Soyuz MS-13 crew module at 09:12 GMT (10:12 CET) Thursday 6 February. Luca’s return to Earth marks the end of his second International Space Station mission known as ‘Beyond’.
Feb 6, 2020 · Luca Parmitano is a major in the Italian Air Force. He has logged more than 2000 hours flying time, is qualified on more than 20 types of military airplanes and helicopters, and has flown over 40 types of aircraft. Luca Parmitano was selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009.
Luca Parmitano's blog. Bones, bacteria, and nutrition – European research on Space Station. access_time15/10/2019; chat_bubble_outline0
Jul 17, 2023 · On July 16, 2013, NASA astronaut Christopher J. Cassidy and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano representing the European Space Agency began a planned 6-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Cassidy and Parmitano’s excursion, known officially as EVA 23, or the 23rd U.S. Extravehicular Activity or spacewalk, conducted at the ...
Luca Parmitano pauses outside the space station on his first spacewalk. A week later, things were a lot more hectic. Chris Cassidy woke on his 43rd morning in space, a Friday, and before...
