{"id":12585,"date":"2014-06-19T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2014\/06\/20140619_italy_and_space-2\/"},"modified":"2014-06-19T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:53:13","slug":"20140619_italy_and_space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2014\/06\/20140619_italy_and_space\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Italy and space&#8221; &#8211; Parmitano and Cristoforetti meet the UN in Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Italian astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Luca Parmitano were guests of honour at \u201cItaly and Space\u201d, the event organised in Vienna by Italy\u2019s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. The event was organised with the support of the<A name=_GoBack><\/A> UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the collaboration of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Italian Air Force and the European Space Agency (ESA). <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Human spaceflight: outlook, opportunities and benefits for development on earth<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>The meeting, which took place during the 57th session of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), was dedicated to the outlook, opportunities and benefits for development on earth. Cristoforetti gave a presentation on her \u201cFutura\u201d mission on the International Space Station. And Parmitano announced to this international audience his role as \u201cAmbassador\u201d during the forthcoming Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>The success of the event was a further illustration of Italy\u2019s advanced role in the space sector. A role, as Ambassador Filippo Formica, Permanent Representative and head of the Italian COPUOS delegation, observed, \u201cthat bears witness to Italy\u2019s skill and technological excellence. Our country is present here too, and taking a leading role, in the international organisations in Vienna, where high-technology plays a role of the utmost significance\u201d. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Luca Parmitano were guests of honour at \u201cItaly and Space\u201d, the event organised in Vienna by Italy\u2019s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. The event was organised with the support of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the collaboration of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Italian [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,35,42],"class_list":["post-12585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-diplomazia-scientifica","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}