{"id":324602,"date":"2017-06-02T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=81e620389ee29120e44509abd61fb233"},"modified":"2017-06-02T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:30:00","slug":"thomas-back-on-earth-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=324602","title":{"rendered":"Thomas back on Earth"},"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\/2017\/06\/thomas_back_on_earth6\/16972271-2-eng-GB\/Thomas_back_on_Earth_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan with Russian commander Oleg Novitsky in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft on 2 June 2017 after six months in space. Touchdown was at 14:10 GMT after a four-hour flight from the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>Thomas spent six months on the International Space Station as part of his Proxima mission.&nbsp; During Proxima, Thomas took part in 60 scientific experiments for ESA and France\u2019s space agency CNES and the international Station partners.&nbsp;<br \/>The mission is part of ESA\u2019s vision to use Earth-orbiting spacecraft as a place to live and work for the benefit of European society while using the experience to prepare for future voyages of exploration further into the Solar System.\n<\/p>\n<p>More about the Proxima mission:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/proxima\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/proxima<\/a><br \/>Connect with Thomas Pesquet:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thomaspesquet.esa.int\/\">http:\/\/thomaspesquet.esa.int<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/06\/thomas_back_on_earth6\/16972271-2-eng-GB\/Thomas_back_on_Earth_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan with Russian commander Oleg Novitsky in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft on 2 June 2017 after six months in space. Touchdown was at 14:10 GMT after a four-hour flight from the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>Thomas spent six months on the International Space Station as part of his Proxima mission.&nbsp; During Proxima, Thomas took part in 60 scientific experiments for ESA and France&rsquo;s space agency CNES and the international Station partners.&nbsp;<br \/>The mission is part of ESA&rsquo;s vision to use Earth-orbiting spacecraft as a place to live and work for the benefit of European society while using the experience to prepare for future voyages of exploration further into the Solar System.\n<\/p>\n<p>More about the Proxima mission:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/proxima\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/proxima<\/a><br \/>Connect with Thomas Pesquet:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thomaspesquet.esa.int\/\">http:\/\/thomaspesquet.esa.int<\/a><\/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-324602","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\/324602","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=324602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324603,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324602\/revisions\/324603"}],"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=324602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}