{"id":430850,"date":"2018-01-16T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d55eaa30144f0c981b2b80236b834d56"},"modified":"2018-01-16T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:23:00","slug":"setting-sail-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=430850","title":{"rendered":"Setting sail"},"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\/2018\/01\/setting_sail\/17332624-1-eng-GB\/Setting_sail_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe European Columbus module is packed up and loaded for transport to the US in this image from 2006. Built in Turin, Italy, and Bremen, Germany, the completed module was shipped to NASA\u2019s facilities in Cape Canaveral, Florida ahead of its February 2008 launch aboard Space Shuttle <i>Atlantis<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nColumbus has been providing microgravity research facilities for the past decade. In honour of this milestone, this week\u2019s image celebrates Columbus\u2019 triumph over setbacks. Many events factored into its delayed launch: the bureaucratic challenge of planning and budgeting, construction delays and the tragic 2003 <i>Columbia<\/i> Shuttle disaster meant Columbus was five years behind schedule by the time it climbed into the sky.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo it was with joy and relief when Columbus inside its climate-controlled container was loaded into the Beluga aircraft, an Airbus A300 named after the whale it resembles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAmong the many who attended its farewell ceremony was German Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the fully integrated module underwent final tests before being loaded into the Shuttle payload bay.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSince its launch in February 2008, the biggest European contribution to human spaceflight has provided a multi-disciplinary, multi-user platform for research in biology, fluidics and physics, and technology demonstrations \u2013 and continues to do so today.&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\/2018\/01\/setting_sail\/17332624-1-eng-GB\/Setting_sail_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe European Columbus module is packed up and loaded for transport to the US in this image from 2006. Built in Turin, Italy, and Bremen, Germany, the completed module was shipped to NASA&rsquo;s facilities in Cape Canaveral, Florida ahead of its February 2008 launch aboard Space Shuttle <i>Atlantis<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nColumbus has been providing microgravity research facilities for the past decade. In honour of this milestone, this week&rsquo;s image celebrates Columbus&rsquo; triumph over setbacks. Many events factored into its delayed launch: the bureaucratic challenge of planning and budgeting, construction delays and the tragic 2003 <i>Columbia<\/i> Shuttle disaster meant Columbus was five years behind schedule by the time it climbed into the sky.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo it was with joy and relief when Columbus inside its climate-controlled container was loaded into the Beluga aircraft, an Airbus A300 named after the whale it resembles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAmong the many who attended its farewell ceremony was German Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the fully integrated module underwent final tests before being loaded into the Shuttle payload bay.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSince its launch in February 2008, the biggest European contribution to human spaceflight has provided a multi-disciplinary, multi-user platform for research in biology, fluidics and physics, and technology demonstrations &ndash; and continues to do so today.&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-430850","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\/430850","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=430850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430851,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430850\/revisions\/430851"}],"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=430850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}