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Topic:	ISS 60/61: Luca Parmitano's 'Beyond' patch

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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>European Space Agency (ESA) release <blockquote>Luca Parmitano Goes BeyondToday ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano announced the name of his second mission and logo during an event at ESA's ESRIN establishment in Italy. Luca will be going "Beyond" when he returns to the International Space Station in 2019 as part of Expedition 60/61, alongside Andrew Morgan of NASA and Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos. <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/iss60_parmitano_beyondpatch01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/iss60_parmitano_beyondpatch01.jpg" width="400" height="300" border="0"></a></center>Above: ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is presented with an image of Sicily as a birthday present by ESA Director General Jan Woerner and Head of Earth Observation Josef Aschbacher during his Beyond mission announcement event in Frascati, Italy.Luca was the first of the 2009 astronaut class to fly to the Space Station. His first mission Volare, meaning "to fly" in Italian, took place in 2013 and lasted 166 days, during which time Luca conducted two spacewalks and many experiments that are still running today. Been there, done that<center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/iss60_parmitano_beyondpatch02-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/iss60_parmitano_beyondpatch02.jpg" width="400" height="400" border="0"></a></center>In selecting Beyond, Luca was inspired by his fellow ESA astronauts. From the nearness to Earth of Thomas Pesquet's Proxima mission to the broadening scope of Alexander Gerst's current Horizons mission, Luca saw a path that will push humankind even farther, for the benefit of all. "What we do in orbit is not just for the astronauts or for the International Space Station programme, it is for everybody," Luca explains. "It is for Earth, it is for humankind, and it is the only path for us to learn what we need in terms of science and technology in order to go beyond."The mission logo illustrates this trajectory. An astronaut looks out into space through a helmet visor. Earth and the Space International Station are reflected in this visor. In the distance, the Moon is poised for humankind's return, with the Orion spacecraft and exploratory rovers. Beyond is Mars, the Red Planet, currently being studied by satellites such as ExoMars, Mars Express and, one day, by humans. The research Luca will be running on the Space Station will contribute to keeping humans safe on longer exploration missions. Also on the agenda for Luca are demonstrations that will develop the technological and operational knowledge that will allow humans, together with robots, to explore the Moon and Mars from orbit and on their surfaces. Commanding spaceIt is not all experiments for Luca. He will serve as Space Station commander during the second half of his mission. This is the third time a European astronaut has held this leadership role, but the first by an Italian astronaut. <center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ric8Wv02jc?rel=0&showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen>

How does Luca plan to take on this exciting yet challenging responsibility?

"I see myself as a facilitator. My goal will be to put everybody in the condition to perform to the best of their capability."

Luca is currently training for his upcoming mission at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, at Star City near Moscow, and at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne. In addition to running simulations on the Soyuz spacecraft he is also familiarising himself with the experiments he will conduct in the orbital outpost.

Luca is excited to return to Europe's Columbus laboratory, launched 10 years ago this year. Columbus houses as many disciplines as possible in a small volume, from astrobiology to microbiology through metallurgy and psychology. Countless papers have been published drawing conclusions from experiments performed in Columbus, and Luca will continue the research during his mission.

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This patch is now available from official ESA supplier Emblemen.

Jacques van Oene

Luca Parmitano wearing the patch:

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