{"id":221973,"date":"2014-11-06T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"6782c91974e4de58e581d770bc8e3e2a"},"modified":"2014-11-06T06:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T10:39:00","slug":"cologne-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221973","title":{"rendered":"Cologne from space"},"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\/11\/cologne_from_space\/15022589-1-eng-GB\/Cologne_from_space_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this image of Cologne in Germany at the end of his six-month Blue Dot mission on the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe airport of Cologne-Bonn is visible at top right; below it is ESA\u2019s European Astronaut Centre. Alexander will be the first astronaut to return to Europe directly from the landing site: after his landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan, he will fly to Cologne airport via a stopover in Scotland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander\u2019s rehabilitation will be handled by an ESA team of doctors and physiotherapists at the German Aerospace Center\u2019s state-of-the-art \u201c:envihab\u201d facility, next door to ESA\u2019s astronaut centre.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander Tweeted this image a week before his departure from the Space Station with the text: \u201cIn one week\u2019s time, If everything goes to plan, I will be exactly HERE.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Alexander Gerst via <a href=\"http:\/\/alexandergerst.esa.int\">alexandergerst.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\/11\/cologne_from_space\/15022589-1-eng-GB\/Cologne_from_space_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this image of Cologne in Germany at the end of his six-month Blue Dot mission on the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe airport of Cologne-Bonn is visible at top right; below it is ESA\u2019s European Astronaut Centre. Alexander will be the first astronaut to return to Europe directly from the landing site: after his landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan, he will fly to Cologne airport via a stopover in Scotland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander\u2019s rehabilitation will be handled by an ESA team of doctors and physiotherapists at the German Aerospace Center\u2019s state-of-the-art \u201c:envihab\u201d facility, next door to ESA\u2019s astronaut centre.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander Tweeted this image a week before his departure from the Space Station with the text: \u201cIn one week\u2019s time, If everything goes to plan, I will be exactly HERE.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Alexander Gerst via <a href=\"http:\/\/alexandergerst.esa.int\">alexandergerst.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-221973","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\/221973","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=221973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221973\/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=221973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}