{"id":367532,"date":"2017-08-24T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e5de26acb4e6566cc997d89249c22a90"},"modified":"2017-08-24T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T13:20:00","slug":"weightless-wishes-thomas-reiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=367532","title":{"rendered":"Weightless Wishes Thomas Reiter"},"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\/09\/weightless_wishes_thomas_reiter\/17130800-2-eng-GB\/Weightless_Wishes_Thomas_Reiter_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Thomas Reiter (right) during The Kid\u2019s Weightless Dreams campaign organised by Novespace and R\u00eaves de Gosse that gave 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 2017.\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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJoining the children were ESA astronauts from their corresponding member states who have flown in space were on board to assist and mentor the children and answer their questions, Thomas Reiter (DE),&nbsp;Tim Peake (GB), Frank De Winne (BE), Claudie Haigner\u00e9 (FR),&nbsp;Jean-Francois Clervoy (FR)&nbsp;and Maurizio Cheli (IT).&nbsp;<\/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\/09\/weightless_wishes_thomas_reiter\/17130800-2-eng-GB\/Weightless_Wishes_Thomas_Reiter_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Thomas Reiter (right) during The Kid&rsquo;s Weightless Dreams campaign organised by Novespace and R&ecirc;ves de Gosse that gave 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 2017.\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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJoining the children were ESA astronauts from their corresponding member states who have flown in space were on board to assist and mentor the children and answer their questions, Thomas Reiter (DE),&nbsp;Tim Peake (GB), Frank De Winne (BE), Claudie Haigner&eacute; (FR),&nbsp;Jean-Francois Clervoy (FR)&nbsp;and Maurizio Cheli (IT).&nbsp;<\/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-367532","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\/367532","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=367532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367533,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367532\/revisions\/367533"}],"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=367532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}