{"id":683310,"date":"2021-03-08T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=683310"},"modified":"2021-03-08T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:50:00","slug":"an-astronauts-guide-to-out-of-earth-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=683310","title":{"rendered":"An astronaut\u2019s guide to out-of-Earth manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Alexander_with_EML_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Sawing launch bolt\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Improvising new stuff from the stuff you have is part of an astronaut\u2019s job description \u2013 think Apollo 13\u2019s crew refitting CO2 filters to save their own lives, or stranded Mark Watney in <i>The Martian,<\/i> feeding himself on the Red Planet. Now plans are underway to manufacture items in orbit, and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst argues this could make a big difference to living and working in space.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/An_astronaut_s_guide_to_out-of-Earth_manufacturing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">An astronaut\u2019s guide to out-of-Earth manufacturing<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvising new stuff from the stuff you have is part of an astronaut\u2019s job description \u2013 think Apollo 13\u2019s crew refitting CO2 filters to save their own lives, or stranded&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":683311,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683310","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\/683310","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=683310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/683311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}