{"id":238373,"date":"2015-12-08T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4b9e0e47eab4b21b000d77d6cac4b162"},"modified":"2015-12-08T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T13:46:00","slug":"launch-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=238373","title":{"rendered":"Launch positions"},"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\/12\/launch_positions\/15724801-1-eng-GB\/Launch_positions_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Tim Peake testing his Sokol pressure suit and Soyuz spacecraft seat in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in preparation for his launch to the International Space Station on 15 December.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the run-up to launch astronauts flying in a Soyuz spacecraft test their tailor-made seats and pressure suits to ensure a snug fit. The suit protects them in case of a sudden loss of pressure, and on launch day they might be worn for many hours as the astronauts wait in their capsule for liftoff.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Soyuz seat is moulded to the astronaut\u2019s body to be as comfortable and safe as possible, absorbing the vibrations during take off and the shock of landing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTim will be launched together with commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra. The trio will spend six months working and living on the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Tim Peake and his mission via <a href=\"http:\/\/timpeake.esa.int\/\">timpeake.esa.int<\/a> and watch the launch live on the ESA website, liftoff is set for 11:03 GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/12\/launch_positions\/15724801-1-eng-GB\/Launch_positions_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Tim Peake testing his Sokol pressure suit and Soyuz spacecraft seat in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in preparation for his launch to the International Space Station on 15 December.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the run-up to launch astronauts flying in a Soyuz spacecraft test their tailor-made seats and pressure suits to ensure a snug fit. The suit protects them in case of a sudden loss of pressure, and on launch day they might be worn for many hours as the astronauts wait in their capsule for liftoff.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Soyuz seat is moulded to the astronaut&rsquo;s body to be as comfortable and safe as possible, absorbing the vibrations during take off and the shock of landing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTim will be launched together with commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra. The trio will spend six months working and living on the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Tim Peake and his mission via <a href=\"http:\/\/timpeake.esa.int\/\">timpeake.esa.int<\/a> and watch the launch live on the ESA website, liftoff is set for 11:03 GMT.<\/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-238373","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\/238373","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=238373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238374,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238373\/revisions\/238374"}],"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=238373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}