{"id":225490,"date":"2015-03-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"fb342c85b6043ed1d5dd00854a8da8f2"},"modified":"2015-03-11T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:59:00","slug":"space2-on-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=225490","title":{"rendered":"Space2 on Columbus"},"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\/2015\/03\/space2_on_columbus\/15304184-2-eng-GB\/Space2_on_Columbus_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nInspired by the archetype 1970s video game \u201cSpace Invaders\u201d, a small and colourful mosaic was placed on the hatch of ESA&#8217;s space laboratory Columbus on the International Space Station by ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFrench artist, known as Invader, established his urban alien artwork in more than 60 cities all over the world including Rome, Paris, New York, Manchester, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. In 2012 he sent a mosaic into the stratosphere on a high-altitude balloon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMission control thinks Invader will organise more invasions and activate aliens at other ESA establishments. Follow their progress on Twitter via #space2iss and #SpaceInvader.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSamantha is planning to join forces with these pixelated artforms to inspire primary school children to use their imagination combining geometry, colours and mathematics into abstract minimalism.<\/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\/2015\/03\/space2_on_columbus\/15304184-2-eng-GB\/Space2_on_Columbus_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nInspired by the archetype 1970s video game \u201cSpace Invaders\u201d, a small and colourful mosaic was placed on the hatch of ESA&#8217;s space laboratory Columbus on the International Space Station by ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFrench artist, known as Invader, established his urban alien artwork in more than 60 cities all over the world including Rome, Paris, New York, Manchester, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. In 2012 he sent a mosaic into the stratosphere on a high-altitude balloon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMission control thinks Invader will organise more invasions and activate aliens at other ESA establishments. Follow their progress on Twitter via #space2iss and #SpaceInvader.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSamantha is planning to join forces with these pixelated artforms to inspire primary school children to use their imagination combining geometry, colours and mathematics into abstract minimalism.<\/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-225490","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\/225490","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=225490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225490\/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=225490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}