He was the first person to DJ in space, and the youngest Italian ever to perform a spacewalk. Our guest Luca Parmitano tells FRANCE 24 about his job as an astronaut for the European Space Agency, as the ESA starts hiring its next generation of space explorers. With a focus on more diversity in the recruitment process, that means the Agency is actively encouraging applications from women, who have been under-represented on the astronaut roster up to now; and from people with physical impairments who would like to become the first "para-astronaut" in history.

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