{"id":690031,"date":"2021-05-12T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690031"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:04:00","slug":"did-you-always-want-to-be-an-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690031","title":{"rendered":"Did you always want to be an astronaut?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Did_you_always_want_to_be_an_astronaut_card_full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:09:36<\/p>\n<p>This video summarises advice given by ESA astronauts during the ESA Astronaut Careers Fair on 22 April 2021. Samantha Cristoforetti, Thomas Reiter and Andr\u00e9 Kuipers have all flown in space as ESA astronauts and offer their perspectives on the selection process and the work and life of an astronaut. See the astronaut vacancy notice and other opportunities to work at ESA at <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.esa.int\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/jobs.esa.int <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further information on the astronaut selection may be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/esamultimedia.esa.int\/docs\/careers\/ESA_Astrosel_Handbook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Astronaut Applicant Handbook<\/a> and in the astronaut selection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/Careers_at_ESA\/ESA_Astronaut_Selection\/Astronaut_selection_2021-22_FAQs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">FAQs<\/a>. If your question is not answered in these documents, you have the option to email <a href=\"\/astronaut.recruitment@esa.int\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">astronaut.recruitment@esa.int<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Applications will be accepted until 28 May 2021.<\/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\/05\/Did_you_always_want_to_be_an_astronaut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Did you always want to be an astronaut?<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:09:36 This video summarises advice given by ESA astronauts during the ESA Astronaut Careers Fair on 22 April 2021. Samantha Cristoforetti, Thomas Reiter and Andr\u00e9 Kuipers have all flown&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":690032,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690031","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\/690031","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=690031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/690032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}