Luca Parmitano

(1976) Astronaut

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Luca Parmitano is an astronaut.

Quick Facts About Luca Parmitano

Born: September 27, 1976
Profession: Astronaut

About Luca Parmitano

Luca Salvo Parmitano 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.

Quotes by Luca Parmitano

I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying,…

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Academy

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My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city.…

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Beach

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So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They…

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Astronauts

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Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with…

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Art

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Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us…

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Engineers

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Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

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Any

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It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk.

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Any

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