{"id":238262,"date":"2015-12-01T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=efc2b9bcef80ac51dd38b25804ea640a"},"modified":"2015-12-01T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:10:00","slug":"fits-like-a-glove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=238262","title":{"rendered":"Fits like a glove"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nRoscosmos commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and ESA astronaut Tim Peake stand by the Sokol suits they will wear on launch day, 15 December.\n<\/p>\n

\nSoyuz astronauts get to try their spacecraft and suits for the first time two weeks before being launched to the International Space Station. Each suit and spacecraft seat is tailor-made for comfort and safety.\n<\/p>\n

\nHere, the Expedition 46\/47 astronauts are inflating their Sokol suits to ensure there are no leaks. The suits will protect them in case of a sudden loss of pressure inside the Soyuz.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe trio have a six-month mission planned and are spending their last days on Earth preparing for the flight into space.\n<\/p>\n

\nFollow Tim Peake via timpeake.esa.int<\/a>, and follow the whole mission, including their time in Baikonur and the launch, via ESA\u2019s Principia blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\nRoscosmos commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and ESA astronaut Tim Peake stand by the Sokol suits they will wear on launch day, 15 December.\n<\/p>\n

\nSoyuz astronauts get to try their spacecraft and suits for the first time two weeks before being launched to the International Space Station. Each suit and spacecraft seat is tailor-made for comfort and safety.\n<\/p>\n

\nHere, the Expedition 46\/47 astronauts are inflating their Sokol suits to ensure there are no leaks. The suits will protect them in case of a sudden loss of pressure inside the Soyuz.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe trio have a six-month mission planned and are spending their last days on Earth preparing for the flight into space.\n<\/p>\n

\nFollow Tim Peake via timpeake.esa.int<\/a>, and follow the whole mission, including their time in Baikonur and the launch, via ESA’s Principia blog<\/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-238262","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\/238262","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=238262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238263,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238262\/revisions\/238263"}],"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=238262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}