Luca Parmitano
Luca Parmitano is an Italian engineer and astronaut in the European Astronaut Corps. Born 27 September 1976 in Patern?, Sicily. In 1999, he completed a bachelor\'s degree in political sciences at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, with a thesis on international law. In 2000, he graduated with Sparviero IV academic course, from the Italian Accademia Aeronautica, in Pozzuoli, Italy. Parmitano is a Major in the Italian Air Force and an Astronaut of the European Space Agency. He has logged more than 2000 hours flying time, is qualified on more than 20 types of military aircraft (both fixed-wing and rotary-wing) and has flown over 40 types of aircraft. On July 9, 2013, he became the first Italian to take part in a spacewalk. In July 2015, Parmitano became an aquanaut when he served as commander of the NEEMO 20 crew.
