{"id":662176,"date":"2020-07-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662176"},"modified":"2020-07-28T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:00:00","slug":"thomas-pesquet-alpha-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662176","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Pesquet &#8211; Alpha Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Thomas_Pesquet_-_Alpha_Mission_card_full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:03:12<\/p>\n<p>ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has been assigned to the second operational flight of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft, launching to the International Space Station in 2021. Thomas\u2019 second mission to the International Space Station will be called Alpha. This is after Alpha Centauri, the closest stellar system to Earth, following the French tradition to name space missions after stars or constellations.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2020\/07\/Thomas_Pesquet_-_Alpha_Mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Pesquet &#8211; Alpha Mission<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:03:12 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has been assigned to the second operational flight of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft, launching to the International Space Station in 2021. Thomas\u2019 second mission&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":662177,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662176","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\/662176","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=662176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/662177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}