{"id":243615,"date":"2016-11-16T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=22afee39d9d6e491493d8d8668c5cd9c"},"modified":"2016-11-16T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T15:30:00","slug":"prime-and-backup-crewmembers-during-the-pre-launch-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243615","title":{"rendered":"Prime and backup crewmembers during the pre-launch press conference"},"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\/11\/prime_and_backup_crewmembers_during_the_pre-launch_press_conference\/16507380-2-eng-GB\/Prime_and_backup_crewmembers_during_the_pre-launch_press_conference_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nPrime and backup crewmembers during the pre-launch press conference, on 16 November 2016, in Kazakhstan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPrime crewmembers are Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency and backup crewmembers are Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Jack Fischer of NASA.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThomas Pesquet, Peggy Whitson and Oleg Novitsky will be launched 17 November for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Thomas via <a href=\"http:\/\/thomaspesquet.esa.int\/\">thomaspesquet.esa.int<\/a> and check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/thomas-pesquet\">mission blog for updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime and backup crewmembers during the pre-launch press conference, on 16 November 2016, in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>Prime crewmembers are Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the &#8230;<\/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-243615","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\/243615","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=243615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243616,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243615\/revisions\/243616"}],"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=243615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}