Emanuele Viscuso
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'Emanuele Viscuso, is a sculptor, a musician, a designer and a cultural promoter. His most famous piece is the 45-foot-large sculpture "Wave-bridge on the imaginary" located at the Milan Malpensa international airport. On 2006 Viscuso created in Miami the Sicilian Film Festival, a showcase of Sicilian directors and movies. On 2008 Viscuso created in Castelbuono
, Sicily, F.I.M.O. International Organ Music Festival in the Churches of the Historical Princedom of Castelbuono.
Emanuele Viscuso has taken part to the Esperia* STS-120/10A Mission, launched on 23 October 2007 from the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
, in Florida as delegate in Florida of Accademia Italiana della Cucina, a Cultural Institution of the Italian Republic. Thanks to his proposal and support, on board the Space Shuttle Discovery
, Node 2 - the interconnecting unit developed in Italy by Thales Alenia Space - and the ESA, the Italian Paolo Nespoli and other astronauts started their journey towards the International Space Station
(ISS) bringing with them delicious Italian food to offer to the other astronauts on the Station in orbit. Thanks to the importance of Accademia Italiana della Cucina this can be considered the first Space Convivium in the history. The Accademia awarded Emanuele Viscuso for this remarcable work with the Ettore Pepe Award in Palermo, Sicily on September 8, 2008.
The city of Miami Beach, where he resides since November 2000, recognized his cultural involvement in the community with the "Key to the City" on 17 October 2007.
Castelbuono
Castelbuono is a town and comune in the province of Palermo, Sicily . It is especially famous for the castle which its name derives, and around which the city grew up in the 14th century.-History:...
, Sicily, F.I.M.O. International Organ Music Festival in the Churches of the Historical Princedom of Castelbuono.
Emanuele Viscuso has taken part to the Esperia* STS-120/10A Mission, launched on 23 October 2007 from the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
The John F. Kennedy Space Center is the NASA installation that has been the launch site for every United States human space flight since 1968. Although such flights are currently on hiatus, KSC continues to manage and operate unmanned rocket launch facilities for America's civilian space program...
, in Florida as delegate in Florida of Accademia Italiana della Cucina, a Cultural Institution of the Italian Republic. Thanks to his proposal and support, on board the Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States, and was operational from its maiden flight, STS-41-D on August 30, 1984, until its final landing during STS-133 on March 9, 2011...
, Node 2 - the interconnecting unit developed in Italy by Thales Alenia Space - and the ESA, the Italian Paolo Nespoli and other astronauts started their journey towards the International Space Station
International Space Station
The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes...
(ISS) bringing with them delicious Italian food to offer to the other astronauts on the Station in orbit. Thanks to the importance of Accademia Italiana della Cucina this can be considered the first Space Convivium in the history. The Accademia awarded Emanuele Viscuso for this remarcable work with the Ettore Pepe Award in Palermo, Sicily on September 8, 2008.
The city of Miami Beach, where he resides since November 2000, recognized his cultural involvement in the community with the "Key to the City" on 17 October 2007.