{"id":221586,"date":"2014-10-10T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"abc536128486883ec172a3779c35a1f6"},"modified":"2014-10-10T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T13:20:00","slug":"revealing-the-iriss-mission-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221586","title":{"rendered":"Revealing the iriss mission patch"},"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\/10\/revealing_the_iriss_mission_patch\/14963724-1-eng-GB\/Revealing_the_iriss_mission_patch_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen reveals the iriss mission patch to international press gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark.\n<\/p>\n<p>In September 2015, Andreas will launch from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, for his 10-day mission to the International Space Station. <br \/>A competition in Andreas\u2019 home country of Denmark attracted 500 entrants, with two designs chosen by an expert jury to represent iriss and Andreas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe winner for this mission logo, Poul Rasmussen, was inspired by the Greek goddess Iris, who is often depicted with wings. The wings in the design also represent a Viking ship as used to explore the world and seek unknown horizons.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConnect with Andreas Mogensen on social media: <a href=\"http:\/\/andreasmogensen.esa.int\" title=\"andreasmogensen.esa.int\" >andreasmogensen.esa.int<\/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\/images\/2014\/10\/revealing_the_iriss_mission_patch\/14963724-1-eng-GB\/Revealing_the_iriss_mission_patch_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen reveals the iriss mission patch to international press gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark.\n<\/p>\n<p>In September 2015, Andreas will launch from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, for his 10-day mission to the International Space Station. <br \/>A competition in Andreas\u2019 home country of Denmark attracted 500 entrants, with two designs chosen by an expert jury to represent iriss and Andreas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe winner for this mission logo, Poul Rasmussen, was inspired by the Greek goddess Iris, who is often depicted with wings. The wings in the design also represent a Viking ship as used to explore the world and seek unknown horizons.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConnect with Andreas Mogensen on social media: <a href=\"http:\/\/andreasmogensen.esa.int\" title=\"andreasmogensen.esa.int\" target=\"_blank\">andreasmogensen.esa.int<\/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-221586","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\/221586","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=221586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221586\/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=221586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}