{"id":182088,"date":"2013-02-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"697c21e3c93e26f73d524c0c45173f08"},"modified":"2013-02-19T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T11:00:00","slug":"luca-at-col-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=182088","title":{"rendered":"Luca at Col-CC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/02\/luca_at_col-cc\/12534146-1-eng-GB\/Luca_at_Col-CC_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Luca Parmitano paid the Columbus Control Centre a visit before his launch to the ISS in May. On the visit to meet the team that will support him during his mission, Luca spoke briefly with astronauts on the Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, operates the Europe\u2019s Columbus module on the Station. A large team monitor and command the space laboratory day and night from Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThey are the \u2018eyes and ears\u2019 monitoring every aspect of Columbus, from the air-conditioning, power points and lighting to the scientific experiments, cameras and stored equipment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen Luca spends six months on the Station this year he will be able to call the control centre at any time with any query he may have.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mission directors for Luca\u2019s Volare mission also work at the centre organising his time on board, planning experiments and maintenance work, and ensuring that he can do his job in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/02\/luca_at_col-cc\/12534146-1-eng-GB\/Luca_at_Col-CC_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Luca Parmitano paid the Columbus Control Centre a visit before his launch to the ISS in May. On the visit to meet the team that will support him during his mission, Luca spoke briefly with astronauts on the Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, operates the Europe\u2019s Columbus module on the Station. A large team monitor and command the space laboratory day and night from Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThey are the \u2018eyes and ears\u2019 monitoring every aspect of Columbus, from the air-conditioning, power points and lighting to the scientific experiments, cameras and stored equipment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen Luca spends six months on the Station this year he will be able to call the control centre at any time with any query he may have.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mission directors for Luca\u2019s Volare mission also work at the centre organising his time on board, planning experiments and maintenance work, and ensuring that he can do his job in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184880,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182088\/revisions\/184880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}