{"id":644613,"date":"2020-01-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=644613"},"modified":"2020-01-29T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T08:00:00","slug":"intense-beyond-mission-for-luca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=644613","title":{"rendered":"Intense \u2018Beyond\u2019 mission for Luca"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Italian ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will return to Earth 6 February 2020, following his second long-duration mission on the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n

Luca\u2019s mission \u2013 known as \u2018Beyond\u2019 \u2013 began 20 July 2019, exactly 50 years after the first lunar landing. On this date, Luca was launched to the Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan.<\/p>\n

During Beyond, Luca supported over 50 European experiments in orbit. These included remotely operating a rover in the Netherlands to collect rock samples as instructed by scientists in Germany, and completing four complex spacewalks to repair the cosmic-ray-detecting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02. He also supported numerous international experiments and became the third European and first ever Italian commander of the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

Science and research completed during Luca\u2019s mission will help pave the way for farther exploration as ESA looks beyond the International Space Station to the Moon and Mars.<\/p>\n


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