{"id":658534,"date":"2020-06-19T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658534"},"modified":"2020-06-19T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T08:30:00","slug":"meet-the-experts-astronaut-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658534","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Experts: Astronaut training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Meet_the_Experts_Astronaut_training_card_full.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With around two and half hours set aside for exercise every day, skipping the gym is not an option for astronauts on the International Space Station. ESA\u2019s team of astronaut trainers are responsible for developing specialised training programmes to prepare astronauts for spaceflight and combat the effects of microgravity on the body.\u00a0Astronaut Fitness Expert, Dr. Nora Petersen, discusses training astronauts and how the programme may change for future missions to the Moon and Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Find more Meet the Experts episodes on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/Expedition_Home\/12_-_18_years_old\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Expedition: Home website<\/a><\/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\/06\/Meet_the_Experts_Astronaut_training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Meet the Experts: Astronaut training<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With around two and half hours set aside for exercise every day, skipping the gym is not an option for astronauts on the International Space Station. ESA\u2019s team of astronaut&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658535,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658534","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\/658534","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=658534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/658535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}