On June 9, 2026, NASA named Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano as pilot of Artemis 3, making him the first European ever assigned to an Artemis crew — and within hours ESA’s director general framed the seat not as a courtesy but as the opening move in a negotiation to put a European on the surface of the Moon
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Breaking: <p>On 9 June 2026
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