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My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.

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Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

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I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot.

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So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary.

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It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk.

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Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Astronaut

Born: September 27th, 1976

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