{"id":543218,"date":"2018-11-06T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=63f8355eabc1094d9c82257a67883555"},"modified":"2018-11-06T04:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T08:34:00","slug":"european-service-module-before-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=543218","title":{"rendered":"European Service Module before shipping"},"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\/11\/european_service_module_before_shipping\/17858266-1-eng-GB\/European_Service_Module_before_shipping_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nTechnicians at the Airbus facility in Bremen, Germany prepare the European Service Module for shipment to Kennedy Space Center. The service module departed for Germany 5 November 2018.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOrion is NASA\u2019s next spacecraft to send humans into space. It is designed to send astronauts farther into space than ever before, beyond the Moon to asteroids and even Mars.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA has designed and is overseeing the development of Orion\u2019s service module, the part of the spacecraft that supplies air, electricity and propulsion. Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Orion spacecraft is built by NASA with ESA providing the service module. The arrangement stems from the international partnership for the International Space Station. NASA\u2019s decision to cooperate with ESA on a critical element for the mission is a strong sign of trust and confidence in ESA\u2019s capabilities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore than 20 companies around Europe are now building the European Service Module as NASA works on Orion and the Space Launch System.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLearn more about Orion and Europe\u2019s involvement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Human_Spaceflight\/Orion\" >here<\/a>. Follow the latest updates via the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/orion\/\" >Orion blog<\/a>.<\/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\/11\/european_service_module_before_shipping\/17858266-1-eng-GB\/European_Service_Module_before_shipping_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nTechnicians at the Airbus facility in Bremen, Germany prepare the European Service Module for shipment to Kennedy Space Center. The service module departed for Germany 5 November 2018.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOrion is NASA&rsquo;s next spacecraft to send humans into space. It is designed to send astronauts farther into space than ever before, beyond the Moon to asteroids and even Mars.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA has designed and is overseeing the development of Orion&rsquo;s service module, the part of the spacecraft that supplies air, electricity and propulsion. Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Orion spacecraft is built by NASA with ESA providing the service module. The arrangement stems from the international partnership for the International Space Station. NASA&rsquo;s decision to cooperate with ESA on a critical element for the mission is a strong sign of trust and confidence in ESA&rsquo;s capabilities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore than 20 companies around Europe are now building the European Service Module as NASA works on Orion and the Space Launch System.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLearn more about Orion and Europe&rsquo;s involvement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Human_Spaceflight\/Orion\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Follow the latest updates via the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/orion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Orion blog<\/a>.<\/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-543218","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\/543218","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=543218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543219,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543218\/revisions\/543219"}],"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=543218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}