Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues. Luca Parmitano artcolleagueculinary Change image and share on social
It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk. Luca Parmitano astronautcareerhighlight Change image and share on social
My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach. Luca Parmitano beachbeautifulcatania share on social
I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot. Luca Parmitano academyairattend share on social
So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary. Luca Parmitano astronautcontradictiveearth share on social
Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question. Luca Parmitano astronautbeatjob Change image and share on social