{"id":259603,"date":"2017-01-10T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a3bed795676b7e05dc0cc542dd010ac6"},"modified":"2017-01-10T04:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T08:09:00","slug":"thomas-pesquet-eva-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=259603","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Pesquet &#8211; EVA preparations"},"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\/2017\/01\/thomas_pesquet_-_eva_preparations\/16589488-2-eng-GB\/Thomas_Pesquet_-_EVA_preparations_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\nThomas Pesquet from France has been on-board the ISS since 19 November 2016. He is about to take part in his first Extra-Vehicular Activity [EVA], performing maintenance outside the Space Station to upgrade its batteries to newer lithium-ion versions. Intensive preparations for this procedure took place in the months leading up to launch, with classroom sessions at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Centre in conjunction with underwater training in NASA\u2019s Neutral Buoyancy Lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/01\/thomas_pesquet_-_eva_preparations\/16589488-2-eng-GB\/Thomas_Pesquet_-_EVA_preparations_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThomas Pesquet from France has been on-board the ISS since 19 November 2016. He is about to take part in his first Extra-Vehicular Activity [EVA], performing maintenance outside the Space Station to upgrade its batteries to newer lithium-ion versions. Intensive preparations for this procedure took place in the months leading up to launch, with classroom sessions at NASA&rsquo;s Johnson Space Centre in conjunction with underwater training in NASA&rsquo;s Neutral Buoyancy Lab.<\/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-259603","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\/259603","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=259603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259604,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259603\/revisions\/259604"}],"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=259603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}