Luca Parmitano Quotes

Italy, Engineer
September 27, 1976

Luca Parmitano (born 27 September 1976 in Paternò, Sicily) is an Italian engineer and astronaut in the European Astronaut Corps for the European Space Agency (ESA). The astronauts work on missions at the International Space Station. He was selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009. Parmitano is also a Lieutenant Colonel and pilot for the Italian Air Force. Parmitano is the youngest astronaut to undertake a long-duration mission, at 36 years and eight months old on the launch day of his mission.

Also known as Astronaut

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.

Luca Parmitano
- Up
- Beautiful
- City
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.

Luca Parmitano
- Up
- Dream
- Air

So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary.

Luca Parmitano
- People
- Earth
- Opportunity
Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

Luca Parmitano
- Job
- Question
Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.

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

Luca Parmitano
- Career