{"id":222136,"date":"2014-11-23T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"fc0d60acd6ae72688494b5ae0fdca5b5"},"modified":"2014-11-23T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T00:32:00","slug":"samantha-cristoforetti-waves-farewell-to-family-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=222136","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Cristoforetti waves farewell to family and friends"},"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\/samantha_cristoforetti_waves_farewell_to_family_and_friends\/15072193-2-eng-GB\/Samantha_Cristoforetti_waves_farewell_to_family_and_friends_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti waves farewell to family and friends, as she departs the Cosmonaut Hotel to suit-up for the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 23 November 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith Samantha are Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Terry Virts. All three are part of the Station\u2019s Expedition 42\/43 crew.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy\u2019s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.<\/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\/samantha_cristoforetti_waves_farewell_to_family_and_friends\/15072193-2-eng-GB\/Samantha_Cristoforetti_waves_farewell_to_family_and_friends_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti waves farewell to family and friends, as she departs the Cosmonaut Hotel to suit-up for the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 23 November 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith Samantha are Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Terry Virts. All three are part of the Station\u2019s Expedition 42\/43 crew.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy\u2019s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.<\/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-222136","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\/222136","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=222136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222136\/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=222136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}