{"id":241388,"date":"2016-06-08T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=586351df8a3d2661bef6d4151a47a5ee"},"modified":"2016-06-08T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T09:30:00","slug":"embark-on-a-journey-to-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=241388","title":{"rendered":"Embark on a journey to the end of the world\u2026"},"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\/2016\/06\/embark_on_a_journey_to_the_end_of_the_world\/16025139-3-eng-GB\/Embark_on_a_journey_to_the_end_of_the_world_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nMedical doctor Beth Healey had the chance to live the adventure of a lifetime. The European Space Agency offered her to travel to Antarctica and spend over a year at the Concordia station. Mission: to conduct research experiments on the international crew for future human spaceflight missions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut months of isolation, darkness and extreme cold, with no rescue possible even in the case of an emergency, is a test for anyone \u2026\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow the story of Beth as she travels to the end of the world and faces a full Antarctic winter, makes new friends and unexpected encounters and has to overcome not only the cold and darkness of the long polar night, but her own inner fears.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStep to the Stars \u2013 Our future in space starts on Earth\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPresented by the European Space Agency in cooperation with the British Antarctic Survey\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJoin the adventure at: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/concordia\/category\/step-to-the-stars\/\">http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/concordia\/category\/step-to-the-stars\/<\/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\/2016\/06\/embark_on_a_journey_to_the_end_of_the_world\/16025139-3-eng-GB\/Embark_on_a_journey_to_the_end_of_the_world_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nMedical doctor Beth Healey had the chance to live the adventure of a lifetime. The European Space Agency offered her to travel to Antarctica and spend over a year at the Concordia station. Mission: to conduct research experiments on the international crew for future human spaceflight missions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut months of isolation, darkness and extreme cold, with no rescue possible even in the case of an emergency, is a test for anyone &hellip;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow the story of Beth as she travels to the end of the world and faces a full Antarctic winter, makes new friends and unexpected encounters and has to overcome not only the cold and darkness of the long polar night, but her own inner fears.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStep to the Stars &ndash; Our future in space starts on Earth\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPresented by the European Space Agency in cooperation with the British Antarctic Survey\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJoin the adventure at: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/concordia\/category\/step-to-the-stars\/\">http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/concordia\/category\/step-to-the-stars\/<\/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-241388","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\/241388","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=241388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241389,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241388\/revisions\/241389"}],"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=241388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}