{"id":238187,"date":"2015-11-23T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e7555b87d6241225d4855a84e47f0802"},"modified":"2015-11-23T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T23:00:00","slug":"final-soyuz-spacecraft-exams-for-tim-peake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=238187","title":{"rendered":"Final Soyuz spacecraft exams for Tim Peake"},"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\/11\/final_soyuz_spacecraft_exams_for_tim_peake\/15693072-1-eng-GB\/Final_Soyuz_spacecraft_exams_for_Tim_Peake_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nBritish ESA astronaut Tim Peake will be launched to the International Space Station, from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft 15 December.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne of the last hurdles before being allowed to go into space is the Soyuz exams held in Star City, Russia. Six hours of simulated spaceflight in a&nbsp;cramped Soyuz spacecraft while&nbsp;the examinators test the astronauts by programming&nbsp;as many malfunctions into the simulated mission as&nbsp;possible. ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and commander-cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko went through them all today and passed their exams.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNamed after Isaac Newton\u2019s text&nbsp;Naturalis Principia Mathematica,&nbsp;Tim\u2019s \u201cPrincipia\u201d mission will be the eighth ESA long-duration mission to the International Space Station. He will&nbsp;spend five months on orbit carrying out an intensive schedule of european and international experiments, in addition to numerous educational activities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Tim and his mission via <a href=\"http:\/\/timpeake.esa.int\/\">timpeake.esa.int<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2015\/11\/final_soyuz_spacecraft_exams_for_tim_peake\/15693072-1-eng-GB\/Final_Soyuz_spacecraft_exams_for_Tim_Peake_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nBritish ESA astronaut Tim Peake will be launched to the International Space Station, from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft 15 December.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne of the last hurdles before being allowed to go into space is the Soyuz exams held in Star City, Russia. Six hours of simulated spaceflight in a&nbsp;cramped Soyuz spacecraft while&nbsp;the examinators test the astronauts by programming&nbsp;as many malfunctions into the simulated mission as&nbsp;possible. ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and commander-cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko went through them all today and passed their exams.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNamed after Isaac Newton&rsquo;s text&nbsp;Naturalis Principia Mathematica,&nbsp;Tim&rsquo;s &ldquo;Principia&rdquo; mission will be the eighth ESA long-duration mission to the International Space Station. He will&nbsp;spend five months on orbit carrying out an intensive schedule of european and international experiments, in addition to numerous educational activities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Tim and his mission via <a href=\"http:\/\/timpeake.esa.int\/\">timpeake.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-238187","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\/238187","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=238187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238188,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238187\/revisions\/238188"}],"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=238187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}