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Parmitano's mission, called 'Volare', was the first long-lasting mission committed to the Italian Space Agency (ASI), lasted 166 days: from May 28 to November 11 2013.
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Luca Parmitano: from Sicily to
Space via Mission Viejo
Italian September harvest: a tradition
with roots in a Greek myth
Giulia louise steiGeRwalt
Major in the Italian Air Force,
test pilot, and ESA (European
Space Agency) astronaut, Luca
Parmitano was born in the
province of Catania in 1976.
Thanks to an intercultural
In Greek mythology,
Dionysus was the god of the
grape harvest, winemaking and
wine, of ritual madness and reli-
gious ecstasy. He was also
known as Bacchus, the name
given him by the Romans, who
celebrated through him agricul-
ture and wine.
The story says that Bacchus
was the child of Jupiter, whose
Greek name is Zeus, the king of
the gods, and Semele, a mortal
woman, the daughter of king
Cadmus of Thebes. Juno,
Jupiter's wife, was very jealous
of her unfaithful husband and
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Winemaking is an art rooted in our tradition and culture
exchange program, he had the
chance to get to know the United
States and its culture, an experi-
ence that deeply influenced his
personal life and future career.
Today, he lives in Houston with
his family.
In 2013, he was assigned as a
flight engineer to a long-term
mission nicknamed "Volare" on
the International Space Station,
where he brought his own culi-
nary culture and was the first
Italian astronaut to perform
spacewalks. An example of
Italians' talent and determination,
Parmitano has been appointed
Ambassador for the six-month
term of the Italian Presidency of
the EU Council in 2014.
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La
sua
è
un'esperienza
più
rara
che
unica.
Luca
Parmitano
è
l'astronauta
italiano
che
per
primo,
nella
storia
delle
missioni
spaziali
accompagnate
dal
tri-
colore
stampato
sulla
tuta
nivea,
ha
passeggiato
nel
buio
infinito.
Nell'intervista
esclusiva
che
ha
concesso
a
L'Italo
Americano
racconta
con
pacata
semplicità
quel
che
gli
ha
lasciato
un'espe-
rienza
eccezionale
che
solo
pochi
hanno
la
fortuna
di
vivere
e
non
solo
sognare.
Nella
notte
dello
Spazio,
lon-
tano
distanze
inimmaginabili
dalla
Terra,
che
ha
fotografato
rincorrendo
ogni
giorno
16
albe
e
16
tramonti,
e
poi
ha
condiviso
con
tutti
noi
che
lo
immaginava-
mo
ruotare
rapidamente
in
orbita
la
bellezza
sconfinata
che
ammi-
rava
dalla
sua
stazione
spaziale,
ha
respirato,
mangiato,
bevuto
e
Il
gusto
della
vita
che
solo
chi
ha
vissuto
nello
Spazio
conosce
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