The Italian spaceman himself is bald. His Russian colleague Alexander Skvortsov pointed out that the main quality for an astronaut is determination. The Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the manned ...

Plus, there's a risk of mechanical problems or failures; during a July 2013 spacewalk, for example, a water leak threatened to drown Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano in his helmet. Read more ...

TASS/. European Space Agency astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti, admitted that she would be interested in watching a movie filmed in space. "I would be fascinated in watching this film!" ...

The prestigious Italian fashion house is collaborating with Axiom Space, the private company tasked by NASA with developing ...

PA Media The aim of the experiment was to test cooking options for long-haul space trips As the cookies were baking, Mr Parmitano, an Italian astronaut for the European Space Agency, kept mission ...

The Expedition 53 Crew enjoyed their pizza on the International Space Station. Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli mentioned he missed pizza. NASA listened, and sent up some ingredients. Sauce ...

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano has become the first person to DJ in space. No not the nightclub in Ibiza, we mean actual outer space. He carried out a set on board the International Space ...

Currently they are: Astronaut s Karen Nyberg and Mike Hopkins, cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy; and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano (who recently almost drowned in ...

France astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy, and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. They recognized the fall as an accomplishment that would benefit the entire space community. So as your ...