Luca Parmitano Quotes

#1. Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us make things appear simple when they are not, and perhaps we forget this sometimes. Better not to forget.

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#2. Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.

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#3. Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

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#4. It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk.

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#5. I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot.

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#6. My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.

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