{"id":220686,"date":"2014-07-30T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"6e1b1bc52cb176bc07f25236116b4c50"},"modified":"2014-07-30T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T22:00:00","slug":"samantha-cristoforetti-esa-astronaut-training-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220686","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Cristoforetti, ESA astronaut training in Houston"},"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\/2014\/07\/samantha_cristoforetti_esa_astronaut_training_in_houston\/14637601-2-eng-GB\/Samantha_Cristoforetti_ESA_astronaut_training_in_Houston_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSamantha Cristoforetti from Italy joined ESA&#8217;s Astronaut Corps in 2009. An experienced fighter pilot and Captain in the Italian Air Force, she&#8217;s been proposed by the Italian Space Agency ASI to fly to the International Space Station later this year. After extensive international training she&#8217;ll be launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, becoming the eighth ESA astronaut to participate in a long-duration mission onboard the ISS.<\/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\/2014\/07\/samantha_cristoforetti_esa_astronaut_training_in_houston\/14637601-2-eng-GB\/Samantha_Cristoforetti_ESA_astronaut_training_in_Houston_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSamantha Cristoforetti from Italy joined ESA&#8217;s Astronaut Corps in 2009. An experienced fighter pilot and Captain in the Italian Air Force, she&#8217;s been proposed by the Italian Space Agency ASI to fly to the International Space Station later this year. After extensive international training she&#8217;ll be launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, becoming the eighth ESA astronaut to participate in a long-duration mission onboard the ISS.<\/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-220686","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\/220686","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=220686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220686\/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=220686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}