In 2007, he was selected by the Italian Air Force to become a test pilot and qualified as Experimental Test Pilot at EPNER, the French test pilot school in Istres. Following completion of undergraduate pilot training in 2001, Parmitano flew the AMX aircraft with the 13th Squadron, 32nd Wing in Amendola, Italy, from 2001 to 2007. He was also the 32nd Wing Electronic Warfare Officer (EWO). [14] Engineers found that contamination had clogged one of the suit's filters, causing water from the suit's cooling system to back up. The repairs were conducted by ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan. Volare & Beyond mission. Luca Parmitano's blog. [18] He became the first DJ in space on 13 August 2019, when he played a set of electronic music from the ISS for a music festival audience in Ibiza. Using tools along a board having to see how fast Luca can perform tasks such as detaching and reattaching. [21] The repair of AMS was completed after four spacewalks. Parmitano considers Catania his hometown. He completed the JCO/CAS course with the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) in Sembach, Germany, in 2002. [2] Parmitano is the youngest non-Russian astronaut to undertake a long-duration mission, at 36 years and eight months old on the launch day of his mission. Harrison shared Parmitano's experience of living in space on the International Space Station with her online community on social media and her blog, where she is known as "Astronaut Abby". Within the 13th Squadron, he served as Chief of Training Section and Commander of the 76th Flight. In February 2011, he was assigned as a flight engineer to Expedition 36/37 (a long-duration mission to the International Space Station), which launched aboard Soyuz TMA-09M on 28 May 2013 and arrived at the ISS on 29 May. Parmitano graduated from the Liceo Scientifico Statale "Galileo Galilei" in Catania, Italy, in 1995. Parmitano spent a year (1993) as an exchange student at Mission Viejo High School in Mission Viejo, California in the United States with AFS Intercultural Programs. [12][13] Water in his helmet posed the danger of drowning and made his return to the airlock even more difficult, as orbital sunset had occurred just before he started to return. [1] The Expedition was commanded by ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, who became the third European and first Italian astronaut to command the ISS. [17] Parmitano launched on 20 July 2019 and arrived at the International Space Station on the same day. Luca Parmitano. Expedition 61 was the 61st Expedition to the International Space Station, which began on 3 October 2019 with the undocking of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft. Parmitano is also a Colonel and test pilot for the Italian Air Force. During that time, he obtained all the qualifications on that aircraft, including Combat Ready, Four Ship Leader, and Mission Commander/Package Leader. 36/37. In 2003, he qualified as Electronic Warfare Officer at the Reparto Supporto Tecnico Operativo Guerra Elettronica [it] (ReSTOGE) in Pratica di Mare, Italy. Learn how and when to remove this template message, Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program, Reparto Supporto Tecnico Operativo Guerra Elettronica, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, "ESA Personal Data Sheet for Luca Parmitano", Conferimento di onorificenza al Valore aeronautico (GU n.67 del 21-3-2007), "Spacewalk aborted by spacesuit water leak", "EVA-23 terminated due to Parmitano EMU issue", "NASA Solves Helmet Leak With Makeshift Snorkels", "Spacewalk aborted after water leaks into astronaut's helmet", "ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano to be Space Station commander on his next flight", "Soyuz-FG on penultimate flight delivers three new crewmembers for ISS – NASASpaceFlight.com", https://www.space.com/first-dj-in-space-astronaut-luca-parmitano.html, https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/11/nasa-esa-challenging-ams-repair-spacewalks/, "Luca to lead most challenging spacewalks since Hubble repairs", "NASA astronauts complete space-walk to fix cosmic ray detector", "Astronauts Wrap Up Spacewalk Repair Job on Cosmic Ray Detector – Space Station", National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "Suit Water Intrusion Mishap Investigation Report", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luca_Parmitano&oldid=982138747, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 6 October 2020, at 11:27.