Expedition 61 ESA Parmitanot Speaks To Italian Prime Minister- January 10, 2020

SPACE STATION COMMANDER DISCUSSES LIFE IN SPACE WITH THE ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 61 Commander Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) discussed life in space and research on the orbital outpost during an in-flight call Jan. 10 with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the Prime Minister’s residence in Rome, Italy. Parmitano is in the final month of a six-and-a-half-month mission on the station, aiming for a return to Earth Feb. 6 on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft for a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan.