{"id":243479,"date":"2016-11-04T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=cbd7b5e2708bd75877523bda0a873d36"},"modified":"2016-11-04T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T09:15:00","slug":"thomas-pesquet-mission-to-iss-vnr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243479","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Pesquet: Mission to ISS VNR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOn 17 November 2016, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will be the tenth French astronaut to be launched into space, alongside Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson.\n<\/p>\n

\nThey will travel from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazachstan on the Soyuz MS-03, a recently upgraded version of Russia\u2019s workhorse that has been in service for almost 50 years.\n<\/p>\n

\nThomas\u2019s mission is called Proxima and it is the ninth long-duration mission for an ESA astronaut. It was named after the closed star to the Sun \u2013 continuing a tradition of naming missions with French astronauts after stars and constellations.\n<\/p>\n

\nDuring Proxima, Thomas will perform more than 50 scientific experiments for ESA and CNES as well as take part in many research activities for the other Space Station partners.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis video includes interview with Thomas Pesquet in English and French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\nOn 17 November 2016, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will be the tenth French astronaut to be launched into space, alongside Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson.\n<\/p>\n

\nThey will travel from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazachstan on the Soyuz MS-03, a recently upgraded version of Russia’s workhorse that has been in service for almost 50 years.\n<\/p>\n

\nThomas’s mission is called Proxima and it is the ninth long-duration mission for an ESA astronaut. It was named after the closed star to the Sun – continuing a tradition of naming missions with French astronauts after stars and constellations.\n<\/p>\n

\nDuring Proxima, Thomas will perform more than 50 scientific experiments for ESA and CNES as well as take part in many research activities for the other Space Station partners.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis video includes interview with Thomas Pesquet in English and French.<\/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-243479","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\/243479","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=243479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243480,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243479\/revisions\/243480"}],"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=243479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}