ESA ITALY ASTRONAUT PARMITANO NAMETAG FLAG SET PATCH SOYUZ ISS EXPEDITION 60/61
ESA ITALY ASTRONAUT PARMITANO NAMETAG FLAG SET PATCH SOYUZ ISS EXPEDITION 60/61
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano spare nametag and flag set of patches made for his ISS Expedition 60/61 aboard of Soyuz MS-13.
It is absolutely beautiful set with golden thread embroidery of the astronaut name.
Hook-and-loop fastener attached to the back of each patch.
Ready to display in your collection.
The photo and patches inserted in thick plastic folder, size 5” x 7”.
In May 2018 ESA announced that Parmitano would return to the space station on board Soyuz MS-13 mission, to serve as Flight Engineer on Expedition 60 and Commander on Expedition 61.
Parmitano launched on 20 July 2019 and arrived at the International Space Station on the same day.
He became the first DJ in space on 13 August 2019, when he played a set of electronic music from the ISS for a music festival audience in Ibiza.
On 15 November, he ventured outside the ISS for the first time since his ill-fated spacewalk in 2013, on the first of at least four spacewalks to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
Parmitano conducted the spacewalks to repair AMS together with NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan. Both were assisted by NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who operated the Canadarm2 robotic arm from inside the Station.
The spacewalks were described as the "most challenging since Hubble repairs ".
It was the first-time astronauts cut and reconnect cooling lines in orbit. The repair of AMS was completed after four spacewalks. In the last spacewalk Parmitano found a leak in one of AMS’s cooling lines. The leak was fixed during the spacewalk.
Expedition 61 ended with the landing of Soyuz MS-13 on 6 February 2020. Aboard were Parmitano, Aleksandr Skvortsov and Chrisitna Koch.