{"id":662179,"date":"2020-07-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662179"},"modified":"2020-07-28T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:00:00","slug":"thomas-pesquet-first-esa-astronaut-to-ride-a-dragon-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662179","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Pesquet first ESA astronaut to ride a Dragon to space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Alpha_mission_patch_card_full.png\" alt=\"Mission patch for ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet's Alpha mission\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has officially been assigned to the second operational flight of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft, launching in spring 2021 from Cape Canaveral, USA, to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Thomas_Pesquet_first_ESA_astronaut_to_ride_a_Dragon_to_space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Pesquet first ESA astronaut to ride a Dragon to space<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has officially been assigned to the second operational flight of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft, launching in spring 2021 from Cape Canaveral, USA, to the International Space&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":662180,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662179","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\/662179","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=662179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/662180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}