{"id":242884,"date":"2016-09-20T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=da86a2000ecab0a9eba18038a5f203c9"},"modified":"2016-09-20T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T08:05:00","slug":"esa-astronauts-training-for-iss-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242884","title":{"rendered":"ESA astronauts training for ISS mission"},"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\/09\/esa_astronauts_training_for_iss_mission\/16140321-3-eng-GB\/ESA_Astronauts_training_for_ISS_Mission_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\">\nThomas Pesquet from France will shortly become the last member of ESA\u2019s 2009 astronaut class to fly to the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\">\nHe is scheduled to fly next November for a six-month stay in orbit, during which time he\u2019ll carry out maintenance activities and a packed schedule of experiments.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\">\nHe has been training at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, alongside veteran ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli from Italy, who will be going to the ISS for the third time after Thomas\u2019s return to Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\">\nThis video shows new images of Thomas and Paolo training at Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA. It includes interviews with them in English in the A-Rolland French and Italian in the B-Roll.<\/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\/09\/esa_astronauts_training_for_iss_mission\/16140321-3-eng-GB\/ESA_Astronauts_training_for_ISS_Mission_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThomas Pesquet from France will shortly become the last member of ESA&rsquo;s 2009 astronaut class to fly to the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe is scheduled to fly next November for a six-month stay in orbit, during which time he&rsquo;ll carry out maintenance activities and a packed schedule of experiments.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe has been training at NASA&rsquo;s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, alongside veteran ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli from Italy, who will be going to the ISS for the third time after Thomas&rsquo;s return to Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis video shows new images of Thomas and Paolo training at Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA. It includes interviews with them in English in the A-Rolland French and Italian in the B-Roll.<\/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-242884","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\/242884","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=242884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242912,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242884\/revisions\/242912"}],"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=242884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}