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Luca Parmitano

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Luca Parmitano is an astronaut in the European Astronaut Corps for the European Space Agency (ESA). He has spent 366 days in space during two missions to the International Space Station. He was commander of the ISS on his second mission, and has conducted six spacewalks, totalling 33 hours and 9 minutes. Luca is also an aquanaut and has commanded a crew to Aquarius, NASA’s underwater laboratory off the coast of Florida, 19 metres below sea level. He is a colonel in the Italian Air Force and a qualified Experimental Test Pilot.

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