{"id":217807,"date":"2013-09-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"158fc9fa5b6b7fa8618fc94007de6c25"},"modified":"2013-09-24T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T22:00:00","slug":"caves-2013-cavewalking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=217807","title":{"rendered":"CAVES 2013: Cavewalking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/09\/caves_2013_cavewalking\/13042847-1-eng-GB\/CAVES_2013_Cavewalking_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe CAVES 2013 crew have started their extended exploration of the cave system. NASA astronaut Mike Barratt talks about the similarities between spacewalking and cavewalking.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCAVES, ESA&#8217;s unique training programme for astronauts, takes place over a couple of weeks in Sardinia&#8217;s Supramonte. Six astronauts are spending two weeks deep in caves, in the dark and cold. They will be separated from the outside world, doing scientific research and daily tasks together, as a group, just like in space. Moving in the cave system is also comparable to spacewalking with the use of harnesses and safety devices.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead more about CAVES on our dedicated website (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/CAVES2013\/\">esa.int\/caves<\/a>) and follow this year&#8217;s CAVES campaign in the new blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/blogs.esa.int\/CAVES2013\">blogs.esa.int\/CAVES2013<\/a>)<\/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\/videos\/2013\/09\/caves_2013_cavewalking\/13042847-1-eng-GB\/CAVES_2013_Cavewalking_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe CAVES 2013 crew have started their extended exploration of the cave system. NASA astronaut Mike Barratt talks about the similarities between spacewalking and cavewalking.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCAVES, ESA&#8217;s unique training programme for astronauts, takes place over a couple of weeks in Sardinia&#8217;s Supramonte. Six astronauts are spending two weeks deep in caves, in the dark and cold. They will be separated from the outside world, doing scientific research and daily tasks together, as a group, just like in space. Moving in the cave system is also comparable to spacewalking with the use of harnesses and safety devices.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead more about CAVES on our dedicated website (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/CAVES2013\/\">esa.int\/caves<\/a>) and follow this year&#8217;s CAVES campaign in the new blog (<a href=\"\/blogs.esa.int\/CAVES2013\">blogs.esa.int\/CAVES2013<\/a>)<\/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-217807","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\/217807","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=217807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217807\/revisions"}],"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=217807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}