{"id":230817,"date":"2015-06-23T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"6540a33689874ad76620f6977bf33212"},"modified":"2015-06-23T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T22:00:00","slug":"4-october-2015-europes-largest-place-for-space-opens-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=230817","title":{"rendered":"4 October 2015: Europe\u2019s largest place for space opens up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2015\/06\/4_october_2015_europe_s_largest_place_for_space_opens_up2\/15473629-1-eng-GB\/4_October_2015_Europe_s_largest_place_for_space_opens_up_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nEurope\u2019s largest place for space is little visited, but hugely influential: this October you get the chance to see for yourself. ESA\u2019s technical centre ESTEC is opening its doors to the public \u2013 a must for all space enthusiasts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMark your calendar: this year\u2019s ESTEC Open Day will take place on Sunday 4 October \u2013 the 58th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik-1 \u2013 as part of the Netherlands\u2019 national Weekend of Science and World Space Week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is your chance to meet astronauts and space experts, tour key facilities and examine actual space hardware in close-up. This year\u2019s event will focus on our longer-term space future, highlighting new technologies being developed to change the space industry state-of-the-art, and the new destinations being opened up in the process.<\/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\/videos\/2015\/06\/4_october_2015_europe_s_largest_place_for_space_opens_up2\/15473629-1-eng-GB\/4_October_2015_Europe_s_largest_place_for_space_opens_up_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nEurope\u2019s largest place for space is little visited, but hugely influential: this October you get the chance to see for yourself. ESA\u2019s technical centre ESTEC is opening its doors to the public \u2013 a must for all space enthusiasts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMark your calendar: this year\u2019s ESTEC Open Day will take place on Sunday 4 October \u2013 the 58th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik-1 \u2013 as part of the Netherlands\u2019 national Weekend of Science and World Space Week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is your chance to meet astronauts and space experts, tour key facilities and examine actual space hardware in close-up. This year\u2019s event will focus on our longer-term space future, highlighting new technologies being developed to change the space industry state-of-the-art, and the new destinations being opened up in the process.<\/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-230817","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\/230817","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=230817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230817\/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=230817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}