{"id":242055,"date":"2016-06-27T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=83b8d02069548588e83ea83532e2b5ef"},"modified":"2016-06-27T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T13:19:00","slug":"pedro-duque-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242055","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Duque CAVES"},"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\/2016\/07\/pedro_duque_caves\/16056845-2-eng-GB\/Pedro_Duque_CAVES_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Pedro Duque during ESA&#8217;s underground astronaut training course CAVES, June 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCAVES stands for Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills. The two-week course prepares astronauts to work safely and effectively in multicultural teams in an environment where safety is critical \u2013 in caves.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter a week of training, the astronauts descend into the caves to set up basecamp 800 m underground.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe similarities between caving and spaceflight are highlighted throughout the course. Speleologists and astronauts adopt the \u2018buddy system\u2019, and both astronaut trainers and CAVES instructors repeat the same mantras of \u201cslow is fast,\u201d \u201ccheck your gear, and then trust it,\u201d and \u201calways be aware of where you are and where your buddy is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/07\/pedro_duque_caves\/16056845-2-eng-GB\/Pedro_Duque_CAVES_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Pedro Duque during ESA&#8217;s underground astronaut training course CAVES, June 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCAVES stands for Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills. The two-week course prepares astronauts to work safely and effectively in multicultural teams in an environment where safety is critical &ndash; in caves.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter a week of training, the astronauts descend into the caves to set up basecamp 800 m underground.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe similarities between caving and spaceflight are highlighted throughout the course. Speleologists and astronauts adopt the &lsquo;buddy system&rsquo;, and both astronaut trainers and CAVES instructors repeat the same mantras of &ldquo;slow is fast,&rdquo; &ldquo;check your gear, and then trust it,&rdquo; and &ldquo;always be aware of where you are and where your buddy is.&rdquo;<\/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-242055","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\/242055","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=242055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242056,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242055\/revisions\/242056"}],"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=242055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}