Living in Space - space

Every day, 400 kilometres above our heads, there are astronauts living in space. Their home is the ISS, the frontier outpost of human exploration, and a workplace like nothing on Earth. With spacewalks and dockings to contend with, the responsibility is huge, as Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano explains: “We are still the last line of defence against any malfunctions. Especially when we are really close to the station, the time it would take for the ground to send a command to tha