Luca Parmitano at Star City

ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Moscow, Russia on 19 June 2019.

Luca is training for his Beyond mission which will see him return to the International Space Station in 2019 as part of Expedition 60/61, alongside NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov.

Luca was the first of ESA’s 2009 astronaut class to fly to the International Space Station. His first mission Volare, meaning 'to fly' in Italian, took place in 2013 and lasted 166 days. Luca conducted two spacewalks and many experiments that are still running today.

Connect with Luca via lucaparmitano.esa.int.