{"id":687346,"date":"2021-04-16T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=687346"},"modified":"2021-04-16T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:50:00","slug":"dragon-crew-2-arrive-at-kennedy-space-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=687346","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Crew-2 arrive at Kennedy Space Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dragon_Crew-2_arrive_at_Kennedy_Space_Center_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crew-2 with ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet arrive at NASA&#8217;s Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, on 16 April 2021.<\/p>\n<p>French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is returning to the International Space Station on his second spaceflight. The mission, which is called Alpha, will see the first European to launch on a US spacecraft in over a decade. Thomas is flying on the Crew Dragon, alongside NASA astronauts Megan MacArthur and Shane Kimbrough, and Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide.<\/p>\n<p>The Crew-2 launch is scheduled for 22 April at 06:11 local time (11:11 BST, 12:11 CEST).<\/p>\n<p>Background information on the Alpha mission is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/MissionAlpha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.esa.int\/MissionAlpha<\/a> with a brochure at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/AlphaBrochure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.esa.int\/AlphaBrochure<\/a>.<\/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\/Images\/2021\/04\/Dragon_Crew-2_arrive_at_Kennedy_Space_Center4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Dragon Crew-2 arrive at Kennedy Space Center<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crew-2 with ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet arrive at NASA&#8217;s Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, on 16 April 2021. French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":687347,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687346","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\/687346","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=687346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/687347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}