{"id":233162,"date":"2015-09-01T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"6cd3a857f9b79d09590cb58118c9401e"},"modified":"2015-09-01T04:55:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T08:55:00","slug":"prime-and-backup-crew-members-during-the-state-commission-meeting-to-approve-the-soyuz-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=233162","title":{"rendered":"Prime and backup crew members during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch"},"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\/09\/prime_and_backup_crew_members_during_the_state_commission_meeting_to_approve_the_soyuz_launch\/15577201-2-eng-GB\/Prime_and_backup_crew_members_during_the_State_Commission_meeting_to_approve_the_Soyuz_launch_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nFrom left, prime crew members, Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov, Soyuz spacecraft commander Sergei Volkov, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, and backup crew members Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochkan, are seen during State Commission meeting, to approve the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, on 1 September 2015, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonour, Kazakhstan. The trio travel to the International Space Station in the early hours of 2 September.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow the whole mission with live updates via the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/iriss\">iriss mission blog<\/a> and Twitter via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/esaoperations\">@esaoperations<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConnect with Andreas at: <a href=\"http:\/\/andreasmogensen.esa.int\/\" >andreasmogensen.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\/2015\/09\/prime_and_backup_crew_members_during_the_state_commission_meeting_to_approve_the_soyuz_launch\/15577201-2-eng-GB\/Prime_and_backup_crew_members_during_the_State_Commission_meeting_to_approve_the_Soyuz_launch_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nFrom left, prime crew members, Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov, Soyuz spacecraft commander Sergei Volkov, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, and backup crew members Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochkan, are seen during State Commission meeting, to approve the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, on 1 September 2015, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonour, Kazakhstan. The trio travel to the International Space Station in the early hours of 2 September.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow the whole mission with live updates via the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/iriss\">iriss mission blog<\/a> and Twitter via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/esaoperations\">@esaoperations<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConnect with Andreas at: <a href=\"http:\/\/andreasmogensen.esa.int\/\" target=\"_blank\">andreasmogensen.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-233162","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\/233162","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=233162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233162\/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=233162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}