{"id":505288,"date":"2018-08-06T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=af7f3e467023b4edb2a1a0823d8bffed"},"modified":"2018-08-06T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T10:30:00","slug":"horizons-mission-preparing-for-a-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=505288","title":{"rendered":"Horizons mission \u2013 preparing for a spacewalk"},"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\/08\/horizons_mission_preparing_for_a_spacewalk\/17633318-1-eng-GB\/Horizons_mission_preparing_for_a_spacewalk_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nKnown to the crew as an EVA (extravehicular activity), each spacewalk provides a valuable opportunity to carry out repairs, test new equipment and even perform science experiments beyond the confines of a spacecraft. Exiting the International Space Station however, brings heightened risk and activities are planned down to the minute.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this clip, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Serena Au\u00f1\u00f3n-Chancellor help NASA astronauts Feustel and Ricky Arnold prepare to step out into space for EVA 51.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis spacewalk occurred on 14 June, 2018 \u2013 during Alexander Gerst\u2019s Horizons mission.&nbsp;<\/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\/08\/horizons_mission_preparing_for_a_spacewalk\/17633318-1-eng-GB\/Horizons_mission_preparing_for_a_spacewalk_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nKnown to the crew as an EVA (extravehicular activity), each spacewalk provides a valuable opportunity to carry out repairs, test new equipment and even perform science experiments beyond the confines of a spacecraft. Exiting the International Space Station however, brings heightened risk and activities are planned down to the minute.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this clip, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Serena Au&ntilde;&oacute;n-Chancellor help NASA astronauts Feustel and Ricky Arnold prepare to step out into space for EVA 51.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis spacewalk occurred on 14 June, 2018 &ndash; during Alexander Gerst&rsquo;s Horizons mission.&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-505288","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\/505288","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=505288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505289,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505288\/revisions\/505289"}],"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=505288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}