{"id":596,"date":"2003-10-10T22:50:07","date_gmt":"2003-10-11T03:50:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-10-10T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2003-10-11T03:50:07","slug":"follow-the-cervantes-mission-on-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Follow the Cervantes mission on-line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of ESA&#8217;s Cervantes mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is currently scheduled for 18 October at 11:37 local time (05:37 GMT &#8211; 07:37 Central European Summer Time).  Docking with the ISS is scheduled for 20 October at 11:11 Moscow time (07:11 GMT &#8211; 09:11 CEST).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nESA astronaut Pedro Duque, a Spaniard, starts this 10-day mission in company with the NASA astronaut Michael Foale and the Russian Alexander Kaleri, the next ISS crew. <\/p>\n<p>The main objectives of this flight are to deliver a new Soyuz vehicle to the ISS to be used as a rescue vehicle by the crew on board, relieve the Expedition-7 crew (the American Edward Lu and the Russian Yuri Malenchenko) and perform a series of experiments on board.<\/p>\n<p>Read all about this mission on the special Cervantes Mission site.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Cervantes_mission\/\"   target=\"_blank\"  ><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Cervantes_mission\/  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of ESA&#8217;s Cervantes mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is currently scheduled for 18 October at 11:37 local time (05:37 GMT&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"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=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}