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\nESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli (left) with his Soyuz crewmates, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik (centre) and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky (right), pictured inside the Space Station’s Kibo module on 12 November 2017. Paolo, Randy and Sergei launched to the Station on 28 July 2017 and are set to return to Earth in one month.\n<\/p>\n
\nPaolo is currently working and living aboard the International Space Station as part of the Italian Space Agency’s long-duration VITA mission.\n<\/p>\n
Follow the VITA mission: http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/VITAmission\/<\/a> ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli (left) with his Soyuz crewmates, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik (centre) and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky (right), pictured inside the Space Station’s Kibo module on 12 November 2017. Paolo, Randy and Sergei …<\/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-405316","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\/405316","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=405316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405317,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405316\/revisions\/405317"}],"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=405316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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