On 6 February 2020 ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano returned from his second mission to the International Space Station, known as ‘Beyond’. This clip features a few highlights from his mission as ESA looks forward to another two European missions to the Space Station in 2021.

During his Beyond mission, Luca served as the third European and first ever Italian in command of the International Space Station. Before leaving the Station, he handed this role over to Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripocha in a traditional change of command ceremony.

While in orbit, Luca also performed four complex spacewalks to maintain the cosmic-ray-detecting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02, remotely operated a rock-collecting rover in the Netherlands, supported more than 50 European and over 200 international experiments, gained the European record for longest cumulative spacewalking time, and publicly shared countless images as he warned of the challenges facing our planet.

Luca is now based at ESA’s Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany where he is ESA team lead for astronaut operations.