During a spacewalk early in his career, @astro_luca's helmet began to fill with water. As the water started to rise Luca couldn't breathe, communicate or even see, relying on his safety tether to return to the airlock - and safety. He handled the life-threatening crisis with so much calm and clarity that his heart rate stayed stable at a resting rate and colleagues at mission control couldn't even tell he was stressed.
This is a story that is passed around the hallways at ESA as legend. It's a story that tells you more about an astronaut than any CV ever could.
Luca is precise, composed and determined. He is exactly the right person for this role. A test pilot by training, with two missions to space, a commander of the International Space Station – he has seen spaceflight from every angle that matters.
Yesterday I felt so much pride for Luca, as I caught a glimpse of his two daughters from the audience while they watched their father named part of the #ArtemisIII crew, in what must be one of the most emotive moments of his career.
Caro Luca, siamo tutti orgogliosi di te. Buon volo!
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Las dos fotos oficiales de las misiones Artemis II y III.
La de Artemis II la hizo el fotógrafo Josh Valcarcel y la de Artemis III Bill Stafford.
Artemis II me sigue pareciendo una de las mejores fotos de tripulación de la historia.
#ArtemisIII@NASA@esa
Jour 103, orbite 1598 – Les volcans sont parmi les plus beaux sites naturels à voir depuis l’orbite… L’Etna m’a prise par surprise un matin alors que j’ouvrais les volets… La blancheur des ses pentes, et surtout ce beau volute de fumée qui rappelle qu’il a le sommeil léger, très léger. J’ai juste eu le temps de prendre une photo, mais je l’ai guetté le lendemain pour en faire d’autres! Clin d’oeil à mon camarade @astro_luca Parmitano, originaire de Catane, au pied de ce majestueux volcan…
Moins d’une minute plus tard, et nous sommes au-dessus du Vésuve, reconnaissable au premier coup d’oeil par son immense cratère, le sentier qui serpente vers le sommet, et surtout Naples qui l’entoure.
📸 @esa / @NASA – S. Adenot
#εpsilon • @esaspaceflight • @ESA_fr • @Space_Station • @NASA_Johnson
Felicidades, Luca, por esta asignación para Artemis III. Sigues siendo un ejemplo para todos nosotros. Muchísima suerte en esta nueva etapa, mucho éxito y ¡a por todas!
Factoría de vino.
El vídeo completo:
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EL VINO DE LOS ROMANOS
El lagar de los Petrasiales, en Liesa (Huesca) en pleno proceso de excavación por Hector Arcusa Magallón, con la financiación de Eugenio Monesma.
#ancienttechnology#IsaacMorenoGallo#romanroads
#romanengineering
#WaterSupplySystem
#RomanSurveying
#Lagar
#Monesma
🔴 La @NASA anuncia los cuatro astronautas de la misión Artemis III.
Serán Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik y Frank Rubio.
#ArtemisIII@NASA@esa
Nuestro astronauta Luca Parmitano ha sido designado piloto de la misión #ArtemisIII de la NASA.
Con Europa aportando el Módulo de Servicio Europeo a la nave Orión, esta misión pondrá a prueba las operaciones clave que preparan el regreso de la humanidad a la Luna.
Un gran paso adelante para la colaboración entre la @esa y la @NASA
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BP confirms the reorganisation of its business back into the traditional Big Oil model of upstream and downstream.
Gordon Birrell will run upstream and Richard Harding downstream (on an interim basis). The leadership of renewables is downgraded massively and folded into BP’s technology function.
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Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.
It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.
The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.
By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.
NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.
The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.
Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.
We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.
That's what engineering for the long term looks like.
🇮🇷🇺🇸 | MUNDIAL 2026: La selección iraní de la Copa del Mundo ha sido notificada de que debe entrar y salir del territorio estadounidense el mismo día de sus partidos jugados en América, dice el embajador de Teherán en México.
Michael Matthews:
“The accident I had in March was much worse than everyone originally thought. It wasn’t really posted anywhere, but I hit a fire truck at a combined speed of 100 km/h… he was doing 50, I was doing 50. I had broken arms and a broken face.”
“I’m not scared to get back on a bike and into the peloton because I trust myself and I trust my equipment. That crash wasn’t my fault. I was motor-pacing and I came around a corner on my side of the road and, from what I remember, there was suddenly something red in front of me.”
“I consider myself extremely lucky. With a crash like that, it could have ended my career, or even worse, I might not be here right now. I’m extremely blessed to be able to tell the story and how lucky I was.”
But Michael Matthews is not only about to ride a bike again… he’s about to race again. Today, he returns at the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (formerly known as the Critérium du Dauphiné).
Super proud of Bling ❤️ #TourAuvergneRhoneAlpes