{"id":470768,"date":"2018-05-03T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=93f5d5156817a4d3b2bf739e4e1392cf"},"modified":"2018-05-03T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T13:21:00","slug":"esa-astronaut-alexander-gerst-during-training-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=470768","title":{"rendered":"ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst during training"},"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\/05\/esa_astronaut_alexander_gerst_during_training7\/17496593-2-eng-GB\/ESA_astronaut_Alexander_Gerst_during_training_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst reviews camera equipment during training&nbsp;at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA ahead of his launch to the International Space Station.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander will be launched on 6 June with US astronaut Serena Au\u00f1\u00f3n-Chancellor and Russian cosmonaut Sergei&nbsp;Prokopyev from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft.&nbsp;Soyuz MS-09 will be the 138th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mission is called Horizons to evoke exploring our Universe, looking far beyond our planet and broadening our&nbsp;knowledge. His first mission was called Blue Dot.&nbsp;Alexander will take over command of the International Space Station for the second half of his mission. This is only the&nbsp;second time that a European astronaut will take up this leading position on the space outpost \u2013 the first was ESA&nbsp;astronaut Frank De Winne in 2009. Alexander Gerst is the 11th German citizen to fly into space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe astronaut is now in the last stages of training for his challenging mission. The science programme is packed with&nbsp;European research: more than 50 experiments will deliver benefits to people back on Earth and prepare for future&nbsp;space exploration.<\/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\/05\/esa_astronaut_alexander_gerst_during_training7\/17496593-2-eng-GB\/ESA_astronaut_Alexander_Gerst_during_training_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst reviews camera equipment during training&nbsp;at NASA&rsquo;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA ahead of his launch to the International Space Station.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander will be launched on 6 June with US astronaut Serena Au&ntilde;&oacute;n-Chancellor and Russian cosmonaut Sergei&nbsp;Prokopyev from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft.&nbsp;Soyuz MS-09 will be the 138th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mission is called Horizons to evoke exploring our Universe, looking far beyond our planet and broadening our&nbsp;knowledge. His first mission was called Blue Dot.&nbsp;Alexander will take over command of the International Space Station for the second half of his mission. This is only the&nbsp;second time that a European astronaut will take up this leading position on the space outpost &ndash; the first was ESA&nbsp;astronaut Frank De Winne in 2009. Alexander Gerst is the 11th German citizen to fly into space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe astronaut is now in the last stages of training for his challenging mission. The science programme is packed with&nbsp;European research: more than 50 experiments will deliver benefits to people back on Earth and prepare for future&nbsp;space exploration.<\/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-470768","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\/470768","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=470768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470769,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470768\/revisions\/470769"}],"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=470768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}