Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 348.

Gateway, together to the moon.

I'm Courtney Beasley, and I will be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight.

In episode 344, you heard NASA astronaut Randy Bresnick and engineer Stephanie Dudley

introduced Gateway and share how it will support a new generation of scientific

discovery on the lunar surface and in deep space.

If you haven't listened to that yet, it's a really great introduction to Gateway, and I recommend

you give it a listen.

For our second installment in our monthly Gateway series, we are going to dig into some of the

international elements of the station from ESA, the European Space Agency, and Jaxa, the Japan

Aerospace Exploration Agency.

And who better to tell us all about those

than the international astronaut working on Artemis

ESA astronaut Luca Parmetano?

Luca was selected as an ESA astronaut in 2009.

He's from Italy and considers Katanya to be his hometown.

His first mission to the International Space Station was in 2013 where he participated in hundreds of science

experiments and two spacewalks. He went back to the station in 2019 where he

conducted even more science, became the first Italian to serve as the commander of

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