{"id":222138,"date":"2014-11-23T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"8e3e164e69c12e0cfcc2593f75f92a7e"},"modified":"2014-11-23T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T00:30:00","slug":"expedition-4243-crew-members-receive-the-traditional-blessing-from-a-russian-orthodox-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=222138","title":{"rendered":"Expedition 42\/43 crew members receive the traditional blessing from a Russian Orthodox priest"},"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\/expedition_42_43_crew_members_receive_the_traditional_blessing_from_a_russian_orthodox_priest2\/15072295-2-eng-GB\/Expedition_42_43_crew_members_receive_the_traditional_blessing_from_a_Russian_Orthodox_priest_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nExpedition 42\/43 crew members Terry Virts of NASA, Roscosmos commander Anton Shkaplerov, and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti receive the traditional blessing from a Russian Orthodox priest at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to their launch on the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 23 November 2014.\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\/expedition_42_43_crew_members_receive_the_traditional_blessing_from_a_russian_orthodox_priest2\/15072295-2-eng-GB\/Expedition_42_43_crew_members_receive_the_traditional_blessing_from_a_Russian_Orthodox_priest_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nExpedition 42\/43 crew members Terry Virts of NASA, Roscosmos commander Anton Shkaplerov, and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti receive the traditional blessing from a Russian Orthodox priest at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to their launch on the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 23 November 2014.\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-222138","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\/222138","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=222138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222138\/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=222138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}