{"id":218876,"date":"2014-01-28T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"deaa2b85111666393ee47a335c581149"},"modified":"2014-01-28T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T08:40:00","slug":"suited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=218876","title":{"rendered":"Suited"},"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\/2014\/01\/suited\/13514275-1-eng-GB\/Suited_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst taken by his crewmate NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman as they train for their six-month mission to the International Space Station starting in May.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nReid Tweeted this message with the image: \u201cLucky photo! Helps when your subject is photogenic and his country\u2019s flag is behind him.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander and Reid spend many hours training with spacesuits in swimming pools to recreate the feeling of weightlessness in orbit. The Space Station offers two types of spacesuits for working outside of the space laboratory \u2013 the Russian Orlan and the American spacesuit that Alex is wearing here.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCalled the Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or EMU, the NASA spacesuit is nothing less than a miniature spacecraft that supplies oxygen and keeps astronauts at the right temperature. The suit provides protection against the vacuum of space and temperature differences of over 200\u00b0C as the Space Station passes from sunlight into the shadow of Earth 16 times each day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander is flight engineer for Expedition 40\/41, which will be launched to the Station in May 2014 on a long-duration mission to run science experiments and maintain humankind\u2019s space base.<\/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\/2014\/01\/suited\/13514275-1-eng-GB\/Suited_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst taken by his crewmate NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman as they train for their six-month mission to the International Space Station starting in May.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nReid Tweeted this message with the image: \u201cLucky photo! Helps when your subject is photogenic and his country\u2019s flag is behind him.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander and Reid spend many hours training with spacesuits in swimming pools to recreate the feeling of weightlessness in orbit. The Space Station offers two types of spacesuits for working outside of the space laboratory \u2013 the Russian Orlan and the American spacesuit that Alex is wearing here.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCalled the Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or EMU, the NASA spacesuit is nothing less than a miniature spacecraft that supplies oxygen and keeps astronauts at the right temperature. The suit provides protection against the vacuum of space and temperature differences of over 200\u00b0C as the Space Station passes from sunlight into the shadow of Earth 16 times each day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander is flight engineer for Expedition 40\/41, which will be launched to the Station in May 2014 on a long-duration mission to run science experiments and maintain humankind\u2019s space base.<\/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-218876","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\/218876","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=218876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218876\/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=218876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}