Luca Parmitano
Greece
Crete Pictured Upside Down in Photo from Space
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, currently one of the crew orbiting the earth on the International Space Station (ISS), captured this magnificent photograph of the Greek island of Crete from space on Sunday.
The ISS was traveling around 420 kilometers an...
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Greek-Russian Astronaut Ready for Take Off
Many Greeks around the world will never forget the moment when Yurchikhin, the first cosmonaut of Greek descent, brought on 8 January 2003 to the then president of the Hellenic Republic, the Greek flag he had with him on...