{"id":645777,"date":"2020-02-08T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=645777"},"modified":"2020-02-08T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T12:34:00","slug":"luca-speaks-with-european-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=645777","title":{"rendered":"Luca speaks with European media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Luca_speaks_with_European_media_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:00:00<\/p>\n<p>Media had their first opportunity to ask questions of ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano in Europe on Saturday 8 February 2020 \u2013 just two days after he returned from 201 days in space.<\/p>\n<p>This news conference at ESA\u2019s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) started at 12:30 CET (11:30 GMT) with an introduction from the Head of EAC Frank De Winne, followed by statements from ESA Director General Jan W\u00f6rner and Director of Human and Robotic Exploration David Parker.<\/p>\n<p>Luca then answered a range of questions about his recent mission, known as \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/International_Space_Station\/Beyond_mission_Luca_Parmitano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Beyond<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The entire conference was broadcast live on ESA Web TV.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond was Luca\u2019s second long-duration mission to the International Space Station. His first was Volare in. 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Luca was launched to the Station 20 July 2019 \u2013 the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing \u2013 and returned 6 February 2020 in the Russian Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>During his Beyond mission he became the third European and first Italian in command of the Space Station, set the record for longest cumulative spacewalking time by a European astronaut, remotely controlled a rock-collecting rover in the Netherlands, supported over 50 European and 200 international experiments and welcomed the first Emirati astronaut Hazzaa\u00a0Ali Almansoori among other mission highlights.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2020\/02\/Luca_speaks_with_European_media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Luca speaks with European media<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:00:00 Media had their first opportunity to ask questions of ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano in Europe on Saturday 8 February 2020 \u2013 just two days after he returned from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645778,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645777","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\/645777","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=645777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/645778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}