{"id":678276,"date":"2021-01-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678276"},"modified":"2021-01-14T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T12:00:00","slug":"director-generals-annual-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678276","title":{"rendered":"Director General&#039;s annual press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Director_General_s_annual_press_conference_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A replay of our start-of-year press conference with ESA Director General Jan W\u00f6rner, future Director General Josef Aschbacher and other ESA Directors, held online on Thursday, 14 January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>They looked ahead at Europe&#8217;s space activities in 2021 and answered questions from media. Highlights in 2021 include two ESA astronauts flying to the International Space Station, the new James Webb Space Telescope being launched from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, and the launch of NASA\u2019s first Artemis mission, in a programme that will take humans to the Moon powered by ESA\u2019s European Service Module.<\/p>\n<p>\nDownload the presentations (pdf):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/esamultimedia.esa.int\/docs\/corporate\/DGPressConf2021JanWoerner.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Jan W\u00f6rner <\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/esamultimedia.esa.int\/docs\/corporate\/DGPressConf2021JosefAschbacher.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Josef Aschbacher<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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\/2021\/01\/Director_General_s_annual_press_conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Director General&#8217;s annual press conference<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A replay of our start-of-year press conference with ESA Director General Jan W\u00f6rner, future Director General Josef Aschbacher and other ESA Directors, held online on Thursday, 14 January 2021. They&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678277,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678276","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\/678276","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=678276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/678277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}