The second lecture from Anastasiia Prytuliak, European Space Agency postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute Laue Langevin and European Radiation Synchrotron Facility in Grenoble, France about a project called ThermoMag, which is devoted to the research and development of energy-harvesting thermoelectric materials.

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, Russian commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg returned to Earth on 11 November 2013, landing in the Kazakhstan steppe.

Their return flight, landing at 02:49 GMT (03:49 CET), was in the same Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft that flew them to the International Space Station on 29 May.

Luca spent five months on the International Space Station for his Volare mission under a bilateral agreement with the Italian space agency and NASA. He conducted more than 30 scientific experiments, performed two spacewalks and operational tasks as well as maintaining the orbital outpost.

Luca's science roster included installing and running experiments on emulsions that will help industry to create foods and pharmaceuticals with longer shelfa€‘lives.

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, Russian commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg returned to Earth, landing in the Kazakhstan steppe.

Their return flight, landing at 02:49 GMT (03:49 CET), was in the same Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft that flew them to the International Space Station on 29 May.

Luca Parmitano recounts his six-month Volare mission on the International Space Station taking the viewer through some of the experiments he conducted.

Luca's nutrient intake was carefully controlled and measured to collect data in preparation of future space exploration missions. ESA's space furnace, the Material Science Laboratory is exploring properties of new materials. Luca shares the experience of docking three spacecraft: ESA's ATV Albert Einstein, the Japanese HTV-4 and the commercial spacecraft Cygnus. He shows us the Cupola module and the view it offers of our planet.

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 37 Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency paid tribute to the European "Albert Einstein" Automated Transfer Vehicle-4 cargo ship during an in-flight event Oct. 24 involving officials and students in Italy, Germany and Israel. The ATV-4 resupply vehicle arrived at the station in mid-June, delivering more than 7 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the space station crew. It will undock on Oct. 28 and will be deorbited for a destructive entry back into the Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.

Join mission manager Massimo Cislaghi as he gives an overview of its mission showing the hardware while it is still on Earth before shipment to Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano talks to finalists of the Volare Space Robotics Challenge.

From 400 km above the surface of Earth, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano talked with high-school students during the finals of the Volare Space Robotics Challenge.

Seven teams entered remote-controlled robots that battled on a mock-up of the International Space Station. Their mission: to unload cargo from ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle as quickly as possible while avoiding objects.

Students at "ground control" gave instructions wirelessly from the control centre next door. Multipliers added more strategy to the competition.

The two-day event was the culmination of lots of hard work from the seven teams of high-school students. The highlight for many students was visiting ESA's laboratories and of course a live call with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano straight from the International Space Station.

On 5 June, an Ariane 5 roared aloft from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying the European Space Agency's ATV-4 Albert Einstein with the largest payload of dry cargo ever ferried into orbit by a European vehicle.

ATV-4 docked successfully at the Zvezda module on 15 June, bringing 5,500 pounds of food, water, equipment, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 36 crew. In early July, ATV-4's engines were utilized to perform a periodic re-boost of the space station's orbit, and the cargo ship is expected to be undocked and deorbited in late October.

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin waved goodbye to their crewmates as they left the International Space Station on 10 September. This signals the end of Expedition 36 and the start of Expedition 37. The change of Expeditions marks a halfway point for Luca's busy and eventful mission. He monitored the docking of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle Albert Einstein and was responsible for unloading over 1400 items delivered by the supply ship.

Luca ventured outside to maintain and prepare the Station on two spacewalks in July. His second sortie was cut short when his helmet filled with water and he had to find his way back inside, without communications. His calm nerves, training and help from fellow astronauts and ground control saved the situation.

Hundreds of kilometres below his floating feet, a robot on Earth obeyed Luca's commands from space. It was the first time the European astronaut remotely operated NASA's K10 planetary rover, a little four-wheel steer robot that scouted a rocky, lunar-like terrain in the US.

Luca  and the robot teamed up in the second ever teleoperation of a planetary rover  from the International Space Station. The first test took place in June, when his crewmate Chris Cassidy drove K10 in the Roverscape, an outdoor field at NASA Ames Research Center in California.

Luca Parmitano explains his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit and how he does an Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) / spacewalk.

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy were hard at work outside the International Space Station (ISS) for the second time, when water started to leak into Luca Parmitano's space suit helmet, immediately resulting in the duo heading back to the Quest Airlock to terminate the EVA.  Luca and Chris explain the events that happened during EVA #23.