LUCA TAKES LEADING ROLE FOR EUROPE IN SPACE
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano has become the third European and first Italian commander of the International Space Station, whit an official change of command ceremony on Wednesday 2 October 2019. He replaced the departing Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin. This marks the start of Expedition 61 and the second part of Luca’s second space mission known as…