{"id":364668,"date":"2017-08-24T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d97a5a574ca4de5e15a6465fa184d876"},"modified":"2017-08-24T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T13:20:00","slug":"flying-on-parabolic-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=364668","title":{"rendered":"Flying on parabolic aircraft"},"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\/08\/flying_on_parabolic_aircraft\/17123499-2-eng-GB\/Flying_on_parabolic_aircraft_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Claudie Haigner\u00e9 during the Kid\u2019s Weightless Dreams campaign organised by Novespace and R\u00eaves de Gosse giving children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on a parabolic flight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEight children from five ESA member states \u2013 UK, France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy \u2013 boarded the Zero-G Airbus A310 in Bordeaux on 24 August.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn addition to experiencing weightlessness, the children were also involved in science demonstrations. These included lighting a candle, mixing liquids of different densities, playing ping-pong with bubbles of water and working a fidget spinner to demonstrate the effects of microgravity.<\/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\/08\/flying_on_parabolic_aircraft\/17123499-2-eng-GB\/Flying_on_parabolic_aircraft_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Claudie Haigner&eacute; during the Kid&rsquo;s Weightless Dreams campaign organised by Novespace and R&ecirc;ves de Gosse giving children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on a parabolic flight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEight children from five ESA member states &ndash; UK, France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy &ndash; boarded the Zero-G Airbus A310 in Bordeaux on 24 August.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn addition to experiencing weightlessness, the children were also involved in science demonstrations. These included lighting a candle, mixing liquids of different densities, playing ping-pong with bubbles of water and working a fidget spinner to demonstrate the effects of microgravity.<\/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-364668","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\/364668","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=364668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364669,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364668\/revisions\/364669"}],"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=364668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}