Luca Parmitano

Professions :

Born :

September 27, 1976

Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us make things appear simple when they are not, and perhaps we forget this sometimes. Better not to forget.

technology skills simple

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.

beautiful memories beach

You are a team and have to work all together to reach your goal,... by Luca Parmitano

You are a team and have to work all together to reach your goal, which is that of winning.

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.

pilot road flying dream

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

question job being want

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.

down speak opportunity people

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

incredible treat any career

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

colleagues special food relationship

Buzz Aldrin

Alfred Worden

Alan Bean

David Leestma

Duane G. Carey

Deke Slayton