When Luca Parmitano took over command of the International Space Station recently, he became responsible for a crew that was both larger and smaller than normal.
Parmitano, the first Italian to lead the space station, is now sharing space aboard the orbiting lab with the usual contingent of five other normal size crew members — three U.S. astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts. But added to them are two diminutive doppelgängers — two Playmobil figures that were made in his likeness...
The two figures aboard the station are part of a limited edition of 25,000 that are now on newsstands in Italy, packaged with an issue of Playmobil Magazine.
Robert Pearlman Editor
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posted 03-28-2021 12:44 PM
Playmobil has continued its collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and astronaut Luca Parmitano through its online video series "ROBert Knows."
What does it take to become an astronaut? What does the astronaut training look like and what are the personal experiences of Luca Parmitano, astronaut at the European Space Agency? You can find out all this and more here at ROBert Knows, a PLAYMOBIL stop motion film.
What is it like to live in a space station? What does a rocket launch feel like? What do astronauts do if they become ill and what experiences will ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano share with us? Find out about all this and more now on ROBert Knows, a PLAYMOBIL stop motion film.
posted 10-07-2019 12:25 AM
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