{"id":688058,"date":"2021-04-23T03:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=688058"},"modified":"2021-04-23T03:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T07:36:00","slug":"crew-2-walkout-and-departure-to-launch-pad-39a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=688058","title":{"rendered":"Crew-2 Walkout and departure to launch pad 39A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Crew-2_Walkout_and_departure_to_launch_pad_39A_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX Crew-2 Walkout from NASA&#8217;s Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building, and departure to launch pad 39A with ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on 23 April 2021 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/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 23 April 2021 at 05:49 EDT \/ 11:49 CEST.<\/p>\n<p>Background information on the Alpha mission is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/MissionAlpha\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.esa.int\/MissionAlpha<\/a>\u00a0with a brochure at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/AlphaBrochure\" target=\"_top\" 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\/Crew-2_Walkout_and_departure_to_launch_pad_39A2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Crew-2 Walkout and departure to launch pad 39A<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX Crew-2 Walkout from NASA&#8217;s Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building, and departure to launch pad 39A with ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on 23 April 2021 at the Kennedy Space&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":688059,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688058","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\/688058","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=688058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/688059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}