Luca Parmitano / Astronauts / Human Spaceflight / Our Activities / ESA

Personal data. Born in Paternò (although he considers Catania to be his hometown), Italy, on 27 September 1976 Luca Parmitano is married with two daughters. He enjoys scuba diving, snowboarding, skydiving, weight training and swimming. Other interests include reading and music. Education. Luca graduated from the ...

Luca on camera / Highlights / Volare / Human Spaceflight / Our ...

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano uses a digital still camera during a spacewalk as work continues on the International Space Station. A little more than one hour into the sortie on 16 July, Luca reported water floating inside his helmet. The water was not an immediate health hazard for Luca, but NASA Mission Control decided ...

Asteroid Luca / Space Situational Awareness / Operations / Our ...

12 October 2017. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano has been on Earth since his mission to the International Space Station in 2013, but “Lucaparmitano” is now back in space thanks to an Italian astronomer. The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Centre has confirmed a new name for an asteroid formerly known ...

Luca Parmitano / Volare / Human Spaceflight / Our Activities / ESA

Nov 29, 2013 ... Born in 1976, Paternò (although he considers Catania to be his hometown), Italy, Luca grew up dreaming of becoming an Olympic athlete or an astronaut. Luca never lost track of his dreams but focused on more realistic goals such as becoming a fighter pilot. You cannot plan to be an astronaut whereas ...

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Luca Parmitano / Astronauts / Human Spaceflight / Our Activities / ESA. Personal data. Born in Paternò (although he considers Catania to be his hometown), Italy, on 27 September 1976 Luca Parmitano is married with two daughters. He enjoys scuba diving, snowboarding, skydiving, weight training and swimming.

ESA - Space for Kids - Life in Space - Luca Parmitano

Luca has a bachelor's degree in political sciences, and in 2000 graduated from the Italian Air Force Academy in Italy. In 2009, he completed a master's degree in experimental flight test engineering at the Institute Superieure de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE), in France. In 2007, Luca was selected by the Italian Air ...

Volare / Human Spaceflight / Our Activities / ESA

About Volare · Volare dates and facts · Luca Parmitano · Crew biographies · Mission patches · Training to fly · Getting to space · Everyday life in space · Ground Support · Return home ...

Luca at GCTC / Highlights / Photos / For Media / ESA

These images were taken at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Russia in November 2012. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is training as part of the Soyuz TMA-07M back-up crew with NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin. The TMA-07M prime crew will be launched in Dec…

Luca Parmitano / Highlights / For Media / ESA

Luca Parmitano. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano during spacewalk training in ESA's Neutral Buoyancy Facility at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. Credits: ESA–H. Rueb. Access the image ...

Thomas and Luca / Highlights / Human Spaceflight / Our Activities ...

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet training for spacewalks at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA, with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano. Thomas will fly to the International Space Station in 2016. Luca finished his six-month Volare mission in November 2013.