{"id":243667,"date":"2016-11-17T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3b42ace1c7b07b441f6f759e65914e6e"},"modified":"2016-11-17T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:36:00","slug":"thomas-pesquet-waves-farewell-to-family-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243667","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Pesquet waves farewell to family and friends"},"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\/thomas_pesquet_waves_farewell_to_family_and_friends4\/16515693-2-eng-GB\/Thomas_Pesquet_waves_farewell_to_family_and_friends_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet waves farewell to family and friends&nbsp;as he departs the Cosmonaut Hotel to suit-up for the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 17 November 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThomas will leave for the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome at 20:20 GMT (21:20 CET) with NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos).\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>ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet waves farewell to family and friends&nbsp;as he departs the Cosmonaut Hotel to suit-up for the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 17 November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas will leave fo&#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-243667","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\/243667","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=243667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243668,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243667\/revisions\/243668"}],"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=243667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}