{"id":480649,"date":"2018-05-29T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=fe0c32c8e4e8506e89880ee7e0a764e1"},"modified":"2018-05-29T04:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T08:35:00","slug":"alexander-gerst-bio-and-training-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=480649","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Gerst &#8211; Bio and 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\/videos\/2018\/05\/alexander_gerst_-_bio_and_training\/17500752-3-eng-GB\/Alexander_Gerst_-_Bio_and_Training_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\nAlexander Gerst from Germany was selected for ESA\u2019s Astronaut Corps in May 2009.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\nHis first spaceflight was the Blue Dot mission, lasting from May to November 2014 \u2013 during which he performed a spacewalk and oversaw the docking operations of ESA\u2019s final Automated Transfer Vehicle.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\nAlexander will be the first of ESA\u2019s \u2018Class of 2009\u2019 to make a return visit to the ISS in June 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/05\/alexander_gerst_-_bio_and_training\/17500752-3-eng-GB\/Alexander_Gerst_-_Bio_and_Training_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander Gerst from Germany was selected for ESA&rsquo;s Astronaut Corps in May 2009.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHis first spaceflight was the Blue Dot mission, lasting from May to November 2014 &ndash; during which he performed a spacewalk and oversaw the docking operations of ESA&rsquo;s final Automated Transfer Vehicle.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander will be the first of ESA&rsquo;s &lsquo;Class of 2009&rsquo; to make a return visit to the ISS in June 2018.<\/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-480649","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\/480649","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=480649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480650,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480649\/revisions\/480650"}],"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=480649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}